Priscus

Family: Roman · Role: centurion · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 2

Life events

• Priscus fatally wounds Jonathan after Jonathan kills Pudens and celebrates over his body.(Book VI, Chapter 2 · 📍 high priest John's monument)
  • With: Jonathan (challenger of Pudens) Pudens
  • “till at length one Priscus, a centurion, shot a dart at him as he was leaping and playing the fool with himself, and thereby pierced him through; upon which a shout was set up both by the Jews and the Romans, though on different accounts. So Jonathan grew giddy by the pain of his wounds, and fell down upon the body of his adversary”

Book VI, Chapter 2

• enemies with Jonathan (challenger of Pudens) “till at length one Priscus, a centurion, shot a dart at him as he was leaping and playing the fool with himself, and thereby pierced him through”

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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.