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3. The governor of Cyprus under Ptolemy, received a bribe in order to betray the island to Demetrius, B. C. 155, but being detected he hanged himself. (Plb. 33.3.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.