a famous Jewish rabbi, and founder of the sect of the Sadducees. He was the disciple of Antigonus, who taught, that virtue was to be practised for its excellency alone, without regard to any recompence whatever; from whence Sadoc drew this erroneous inference, That no rewards were to be hoped for, nor punishments to be dreaded, in another life. The sect still subsists in Africa. Sadoc flourished about 220 B.C.