Ummidius Quadratus

Also known as: Quadratus · Family: Roman · Role: president of Syria · First appears: Book II, Chapter 12

As president of Syria in Book II, Chapter 12, Ummidius Quadratus went to Cesarea and crucified the captives taken by Cumanus, then at Lydda had eighteen Jews involved in the fighting beheaded. He ordered Cumanus and Celer to sail to Rome to give an account of what had been done to Caesar, and sent Jonathan, Ananus, Artanus, and other prominent Jews to Caesar.

Relationship record

Life events

• Quadratus crucified Cumanus’s captives and beheaded eighteen Jews involved in the fighting.(Book II, Chapter 12 · 📍 Cesarea and Lydda)
  • With: Cumanus
  • “After which he went to Cesarea, and crucified all those whom Cumanus had taken alive; and when from thence he was come to the city Lydda, he heard the affair of the Samaritans, and sent for eighteen of the Jews, whom he had learned to have been concerned in that fight, and beheaded them;”

Book II, Chapter 12

• with Cumanus (Quadratus ordered Cumanus to report to Caesar.) “He also ordered that Cumanus [the procurator] and Celer the tribune should sail to Rome, in order to give an account of what had been done to Caesar.”
• with Celer (Quadratus ordered Celer to report to Caesar.) “He also ordered that Cumanus [the procurator] and Celer the tribune should sail to Rome, in order to give an account of what had been done to Caesar.”
• with Jonathan (son of Ananus) (Quadratus sent Jonathan to Caesar.) “but he sent two others of those that were of the greatest power among them, and both Jonathan and Ananias, the high priests, as also Artanus the son of this Ananias, and certain others that were eminent among the Jews, to Caesar”
• with Ananus (Quadratus sent Ananias, or Ananus, to Caesar.) “but he sent two others of those that were of the greatest power among them, and both Jonathan and Ananias, the high priests, as also Artanus the son of this Ananias, and certain others that were eminent among the Jews, to Caesar”
• with Artanus (Quadratus sent Artanus to Caesar.) “but he sent two others of those that were of the greatest power among them, and both Jonathan and Ananias, the high priests, as also Artanus the son of this Ananias, and certain others that were eminent among the Jews, to Caesar”

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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.