Clitus

Family: Tiberias · Role: leader of the revolt · First appears: Book II, Chapter 21

Life events

Clitus cut off his left hand after Levius refused to execute the punishment.(Book II, Chapter 21)
- With: Levius
- “accordingly he drew his sword, and with his right hand cut off his left, so great was the fear he was in of Josephus himself.”

with Josephus (interaction) “Josephus, whose intention it was to slay nobody, commanded one Levius, belonging to his guards, to go out of the vessel, in order to cut off both Clitus's hands”
with Josephus (Clitus begged Josephus for leniency and submitted to his condition.) “Now Clitus saw that Josephus was in a great passion in the ship, and ready to leap out of it, in order to execute the punishment himself; he begged therefore from the shore, that he would leave him one of his hands; which Josephus agreed to, upon condition that he would himself cutoff the other hand;”

Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.