Cecilius Bassus

Family: Roman · Role: Roman commander · First appears: Book I, Chapter 10

In Book I, Chapter 10, at Apamia, Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar and seized authority over his forces, causing “a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus.” He perpetrated the killing out of his good-will to Pompey.

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Life events

• Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar and seized authority over his forces.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Apamia)
  • With: Sextus Caesar Pompey
  • “there was a disturbance among the Romans about Apamia, and a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus, which he perpetrated out of his good-will to Pompey; he also took the authority over his forces;”

Book I, Chapter 10

• enemies with Sextus Caesar “a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus”
• with Pompey (Bassus acted in support of Pompey.) “which he perpetrated out of his good-will to Pompey”
• with Sextus Caesar (Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar.) “a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus”

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