Faustus Cornelius

Family: Roman · Role: soldier · First appears: Book I, Chapter 7

As a Roman soldier, Faustus Cornelius was the son of Sylla. In Book I, Chapter 7, during the third month of the siege, he was the first Roman to get over the temple wall, and Pompey rewarded him and the others who had fought bravely with glorious presents.

Relationship record

Life events

• Roman forces breached the temple defenses, with Faustus Cornelius first over the wall.(Book I, Chapter 7 · 📍 temple)
  • With: Pompey
  • “for it was in the third month of the siege before the Romans could even with great difficulty overthrow one of the towers, and get into the temple. Now he that first of all ventured to get over the wall, was Faustus Cornelius the son of Sylla;”

Book I, Chapter 7

• parent: Sylla (Sylla is identified as Faustus Cornelius's father.) “Now he that first of all ventured to get over the wall, was Faustus Cornelius the son of Sylla;”
• with Pompey (Pompey rewarded Faustus for bravery.) “but rewarded Faustus, and those with him that had fought so bravely, with glorious presents”
• child: Sylla “Faustus Cornelius the son of Sylla”
• patron: Pompey “but rewarded Faustus, and those with him that had fought so bravely, with glorious presents”

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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.