Simon's Party — Minor Figures

3 figures from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

James the son of Sosas

commander of the Idumeans · first appears Book VI, Chapter 1

• Book VI, Chapter 1 · with Simon (unresolved ch090) “and of Simon's party were Malachias, and Judas the son of Merto, and James the son of Sosas, the commander of the Idumeans;”
• Book VI, Chapter 1 · enemies with Julian “Thus when Julian had struggled with death a great while, and had let but few of those that had given him his mortal wound go off unhurt, he had at last his throat cut, though not without some difficulty, and left behind him a very great fame, not only among the Romans, and with Caesar himself, but among his enemies also; then did the Jews catch up his dead body, and put the Romans to flight again, and shut them up in the tower of Antonia. Now those that most signalized themselves, and fought most zealously in this battle of the Jewish side, were one Alexas and Gyphtheus, of John's party, and of Simon's party were Malachias, and Judas the son of Merto, and James the son of Sosas, the commander of the Idumeans,”

Judas the son of Merto

fighter · first appears Book VI, Chapter 1

• Book VI, Chapter 1 · with Simon (unresolved ch090) “and of Simon's party were Malachias, and Judas the son of Merto, and James the son of Sosas, the commander of the Idumeans;”
• Book VI, Chapter 1 · enemies with Julian “Thus when Julian had struggled with death a great while, and had let but few of those that had given him his mortal wound go off unhurt, he had at last his throat cut, though not without some difficulty, and left behind him a very great fame, not only among the Romans, and with Caesar himself, but among his enemies also; then did the Jews catch up his dead body, and put the Romans to flight again, and shut them up in the tower of Antonia. Now those that most signalized themselves, and fought most zealously in this battle of the Jewish side, were one Alexas and Gyphtheus, of John's party, and of Simon's party were Malachias, and Judas the son of Merto,”

Malachias

fighter · first appears Book VI, Chapter 1

• Book VI, Chapter 1 · with Simon (unresolved ch090) “and of Simon's party were Malachias, and Judas the son of Merto, and James the son of Sosas, the commander of the Idumeans;”
• Book VI, Chapter 1 · enemies with Julian “Thus when Julian had struggled with death a great while, and had let but few of those that had given him his mortal wound go off unhurt, he had at last his throat cut, though not without some difficulty, and left behind him a very great fame, not only among the Romans, and with Caesar himself, but among his enemies also; then did the Jews catch up his dead body, and put the Romans to flight again, and shut them up in the tower of Antonia. Now those that most signalized themselves, and fought most zealously in this battle of the Jewish side, were one Alexas and Gyphtheus, of John's party, and of Simon's party were Malachias,”

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