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Lysimachus

6. A brother of Apollodotus, the general who defended Gaza against Alexander Jannaeus. He caused his brother to be assassinated, and then surrendered the city into the hands of Alexander. (J. AJ 13.13.3.)

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.