Theo'dotus
3. A poet. from whose poem upon the Jews (
ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων) same verses respecting the city of Sichem are quoted by Eusebius. (
Praep. Ev. 9.22.)
According to a scholiast on Ovid (
Ib. 407) there was a poet of this name who was cruelly put to death by the tyrant Mnesarchus. and to whose fate Ovid alludes (
l.c.); but this is evidently mere guess-work. (See Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 324, vol. x. p. 516.)