Theodŏtus

, an admiral of the Rhodians, sent by his countrymen to make a treaty with the Romans.――A native of Chios, who, as preceptor and counsellor of Ptolemy, advised the feeble monarch to murder Pompey. He carried the head of the unfortunate Roman to Cæsar, but the resentment of the conqueror was such that the mean a a in fled, and after a wandering and miserable life in the cities of Asia, he was at last put to death by Brutus. Plutarch , Brutus & Pompey .――A Syracusan, accused of a conspiracy against Hieronymus the tyrant of Syracuse.――A governor of Bactriana in the age of Antiochus, who revolted and made himself king, B.C. 250.――A friend of the emperor Julian.――A Phœnician historian.――One of the generals of Alexander.