Nicanor

Family: Roman · Role: tribune · First appears: Book III, Chapter 8

In Book III, Chapter 8, Nicanor, a Roman tribune, was a friend and longtime familiar acquaintance of Josephus. As Josephus faced threats from the enemy multitude, Nicanor pressed him to comply, while Vespasian sent Nicanor as a third tribune; Josephus accepted his invitation, and Nicanor led him to Vespasian, who ordered that he be kept under strict guard.

By Book V, Chapter 6, Nicanor was a friend of Titus. While approaching the wall with Josephus to discuss terms of peace, Nicanor was wounded by a dart in his left shoulder.

Relationship record

Life events

• Josephus accepted Nicanor’s invitation and surrendered to the Romans.(Book III, Chapter 8)
  • With: Josephus
  • “When he had said this, he complied with Nicanor's invitation.”
• Josephus was taken to Vespasian and placed under strict guard for possible transfer to Nero.(Book III, Chapter 8)
  • With: Josephus Vespasian
  • “Thus Josephus escaped in the war with the Romans, and in this his own war with his friends, and was led by Nicanor to Vespasian. ... However, Vespasian gave strict orders that he should be kept with great caution, as though he would in a very little time send him to Nero.”
• Nicanor was wounded by a dart while approaching the wall with Josephus.(Book V, Chapter 6)
  • With: Josephus
  • “one of his friends, whose name was Nicanor, was wounded with a dart on his left shoulder”

Book III, Chapter 8

• friends with Josephus (Nicanor was Josephus's former familiar acquaintance.) “he was one that was well known to Josephus, and had been his familiar acquaintance in old time.”
• with Josephus (Nicanor urged Josephus to surrender.) “And now, as Nicanor lay hard at Josephus to comply, and he understood how the multitude of the enemies threatened him, he called to mind the dreams which he had dreamed in the night time,”
• with Vespasian (Vespasian commissioned Nicanor as a tribune to approach Josephus.) “until Vespasian sent besides these a third tribune, Nicanor, to him;”

Book V, Chapter 6

• friends with Titus “one of his friends, whose name was Nicanor, was wounded with a dart on his left shoulder”
• with Josephus (They approached the wall together.) “as he approached, together with Josephus, too near the wall, and attempted to discourse to those that were upon the wall, about terms of peace”

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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.