Jotre

Family: Jewish · Role: leader · First appears: Book V, Chapter 6

Life events

• The tyrants destroyed wealthy residents after accusing them of plotting or planning desertion.(Book V, Chapter 10)
  • With: John (unresolved ch086) Simon (unresolved ch086)
  • “but for the men that were in dignity, and withal were rich, they were carried before the tyrants themselves; some of whom were falsely accused of laying treacherous plots, and so were destroyed; others of them were charged with designs of betraying the city to the Romans”
• Simon took the remaining possessions after Jotre’s plunder and sent the despoiled victim back to John.(Book V, Chapter 10)
  • With: John (unresolved ch086) Simon (unresolved ch086)
  • “And he who was utterly despoiled of what he had by Simon was sent back again to John, as of those who had been already plundered by Jotre, Simon got what remained”
• The tyrants shared spoils gained from the suffering and deaths of the populace.(Book V, Chapter 10)
  • With: John (unresolved ch086) Simon (unresolved ch086)
  • “insomuch that they drank the blood of the populace to one another, and divided the dead bodies of the poor creatures between them”
• The seditious overthrew the city and brought the Hebrew nation into contempt.(Book V, Chapter 10)
  • With: John (unresolved ch086) Simon (unresolved ch086)
  • “Finally, they brought the Hebrew nation into contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively less impious with regard to strangers. They confessed what was true, that they were the slaves, the scum, and the spurious and abortive offspring of our nation, while they overthrew the city themselves”
• The temple burned from the upper city while the seditious showed no grief.(Book V, Chapter 10 · 📍 the temple)
  • With: John (unresolved ch086) Simon (unresolved ch086)
  • “and did almost draw that fire upon the temple, which they seemed to think came too slowly; and indeed when they saw that temple burning from the upper city, they were neither troubled at it, nor did they shed any tears on that account”

Book V, Chapter 6

• with Eleazar (unresolved ch082) (Eleazar commanded zealots who had come over to Jotre.) “Jotre, who had seized upon the temple, had six thousand armed men under twenty commanders; the zealots also that had come over to him, and left off their opposition, were two thousand four hundred, and had the same commander that they had formerly, Eleazar, together with Simon the son of Arinus.”

Book V, Chapter 10

• with Simon (unresolved ch086) (Jotre plundered a person, and Simon took what remained.) “as of those who had been already plundered by Jotre, Simon got what remained”

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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.