Antonius

Family: Roman · Role: captain · First appears: Book III, Chapter 2

Antonius is a Roman captain. In Book III, Chapter 2, at Ascalon, he defeated the Jewish force, killing John the Essene and Silas of Babylon while Niger was wounded. When the assault was renewed, Antonius laid ambushes in the passages, where more than eight thousand were slain and Niger was driven into a tower at Bezedeh; on the third day afterward, Niger emerged from a subterranean cave and restored Jewish confidence.

In Book III, Chapter 10, Vespasian sent Antonius and Silo with two thousand archers, ordering them to seize the mountain opposite the city and repel those on its wall.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antonius defeated the Jewish force, killing Silas of Babylon and John the Essene and wounding Niger.(Book III, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ascalon)
  • With: Silas of Babylon John the Essene Niger
  • “the fight lasted till the evening, till ten thousand men of the Jews' side lay dead, with two of their generals, John and Silas, and the greater part of the remainder were wounded, with Niger, their remaining general, who fled away together to a small city of Idumea, called Sallis.”
• Antonius ambushed the renewed Jewish assault, killing over eight thousand and driving Niger into a tower at Bezedeh.(Book III, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ascalon)
  • With: Niger
  • “for Antonius laid ambushes for them in the passages they were to go through, where they fell into snares unexpectedly, and where they were encompassed about with horsemen, before they could form themselves into a regular body for fighting, and were above eight thousand of them slain; so all the rest of them ran away, and with them Niger”
• Niger survived the burning tower and emerged from a subterranean cave, restoring Jewish confidence.(Book III, Chapter 2 · 📍 Bezedeh)
  • With: Niger
  • “but he leaped out of the tower into a subterraneous cave, in the innermost part of it, and was preserved; and on the third day afterward he spake out of the ground”