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Sosibius (in Greek Σωσιβιoς; lived 3rd century BC) was a Tarentine, one of the captains of the body-guards of Ptolemy Philadelphus (283– - 246 BC), king of Egypt.1 It is not improbable he may have been the father of the Sosibius minister of Ptolemy Philopator (221 –204 BC).

References

Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Sosibius (1)", Boston, (1867)

Note

1 Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, xii. 2

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