Simon (unresolved ch082)

Also known as: Simon · Family: seditious · Role: leader of the seditious · First appears: Book V, Chapter 6

Life events

• Simon and John temporarily united their opposing forces against the Romans.(Book V, Chapter 6)
  • With: John (unresolved ch082)
  • “So on both sides they laid aside their hatred and their peculiar quarrels, and formed themselves into one body”

Book V, Chapter 6

• enemies with John (unresolved ch082) “However, John staid behind, out of his fear of Simon, even while his own men were earnest in making a sally upon their enemies without.”
• with Jacob the son of Sosas (Jacob is identified among the Idumeans who paid Simon homage.) “The Idumeans that paid him homage were five thousand, and had eight commanders, among whom those of greatest fame were Jacob the son of Sosas, and Simon the son of Cathlas.”
• with Simon the son of Cathlas (Simon son of Cathlas is identified among the Idumeans who paid Simon homage.) “The Idumeans that paid him homage were five thousand, and had eight commanders, among whom those of greatest fame were Jacob the son of Sosas, and Simon the son of Cathlas.”
• with Jacob the son of Sosas (Simon was supreme over the forces that included Jacob among their commanders.) “Those ten thousand had fifty commanders, over whom this Simon was supreme. The Idumeans that paid him homage were five thousand, and had eight commanders, among whom those of greatest fame were Jacob the son of Sosas, and Simon the son of Cathlas.”
• with Simon the son of Cathlas (Simon was supreme over the forces that included Simon the son of Cathlas among their commanders.) “Those ten thousand had fifty commanders, over whom this Simon was supreme. The Idumeans that paid him homage were five thousand, and had eight commanders, among whom those of greatest fame were Jacob the son of Sosas, and Simon the son of Cathlas.”
• with Cestius (Simon's forces possessed engines previously taken from Cestius.) “he brought his engines of war, and disposed of them at due distances upon the wall, both those which they took from Cestius formerly, and those which they got when they seized the garrison that lay in the tower Antonia.”
• with John (unresolved ch082) (They temporarily coordinated their defenses despite mutual distrust.) “Accordingly, Simon gave those that came from the temple leave, by proclamation, to go upon the wall; John also himself, though he could not believe Simon was in earnest, gave them the same leave.”

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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.