²⁴ Timothy himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater and their men. With great guile he begged them to let him go in safety, because he held the parents of most of them and the brothers of some, to whom no consideration would be shown.^(A)

Preparations for Battle

³⁸ Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,^(A)

⁶ Then he crossed over to attack the Ammonites, where he found a strong band and many people, with Timothy as their leader.^(A)

¹³ As a result he was accused before Eupator by the king’s Friends. He heard himself called a traitor at every turn because he had abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Unable to command the respect due his office,^[a] he took poison and ended his life.^(A)

³⁷ They killed Timothy, who was hiding in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes.^(A)