Moses

Family: Jewish · Role: leader · First appears: Histories V.1-4

Life events

Moses persuaded the outcasts to rely on themselves and follow chance toward safety.(Histories V.1-4 · 📍 desert)
- “one of them, named Moses, advised them not to look for help to gods or men, since both had deserted them, but to trust rather in themselves and accept as divine the guidance of the first being by whose aid they should get out of their present plight. They agreed, and set out blindly to march wherever chance might lead them.”
Moses discovered an ample flow of water, saving the dying outcasts.(Histories V.1-4 · 📍 desert)
- “Moses followed and disclosed an ample flow of water. This saved them.”
The outcasts routed the natives and gained possession of the country.(Histories V.1-4)
- “Continuing their march for six successive days, on the seventh they routed the natives and gained possession of the country.”
Moses introduced a new cult to secure his future hold over the people.(Histories V.1-4)
- “To ensure his future hold over the people, Moses introduced a new cult, which was the opposite of all other religions.”

with King Bocchoris (Bocchoris's order resulted in Moses being among the transported outcasts.) “King Bocchoris, on approaching the oracle of Ammon and inquiring for a remedy, was told to purge his kingdom of the plague and to transport all who suffered from it into some other country, for they had earned the disfavour of Heaven. A motley crowd was thus collected and abandoned in the desert. While all the other outcasts lay idly lamenting, one of them, named Moses, advised them not to look for help to gods or men”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.