Theo'dotus
2. A Phoenician historian, who lived before Josephus, and wrote a history of his native country, in the Phoenician tongue, which was translated into Greek by a certain Laetus, if we adopt the correction of Reinesius in the passage of Tatian, where the MSS. give
Χαῖτος or
Ἄσιτος (Tatian.
ad v. Graec. 58. p. 128, ed. Worth; Joseph.
c. Apion. 1.23;
Euseb. Praep. Ev. 10.11; Vossius,
de Hist. Graec. p. 504.)