Dositheus was a Jewish heresiarch of the 1st century A.D., who insisted on a painfully rigorous observance of the Sabbath, and died of excessive fasting.—There was also a grammarian of this name in the 4th century, who wrote a Latin grammar for Greek boys.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 65
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