Metilius
Family: Roman · Role: Roman general · First appears: Book II, Chapter 17
In Book II, Chapter 17, Metilius, the Roman general, sent to Eleazar (son of Ananias) asking that the soldiers’ lives be spared. Gorion, the son of Nicodemus, Ananias, the son of Sadduk, and Judas, the son of Jonathan were sent to provide security through right hands and oaths.
After the soldiers laid down their shields and swords under the capitulation, Eleazar (son of Ananias)’s men attacked and killed them. Metilius alone was spared after he promised to turn Jew and be circumcised.
Relationship record
Life events
- Eleazar’s men violated the capitulation and massacred Metilius’s disarmed soldiers, sparing Metilius after his conversion promise.(Book II, Chapter 17)
- With: Eleazar (son of Ananias)
- “but as soon as, according to the articles of capitulation, they had all laid down their shields and their swords, and were under no further suspicion of any harm, but were going away, Eleazar's men attacked them after a violent manner, and encompassed them round, and slew them, while they neither defended themselves, nor entreated for mercy, but only cried out upon the breach of their articles of capitulation and their oaths. And thus were all these men barbarously murdered, excepting Metilius; for when he entreated for mercy, and promised that he would turn Jew, and be circumcised, they saved him alive, but none else.”
Book II, Chapter 17
- with Eleazar (son of Ananias) (Metilius negotiated with Eleazar for the soldiers' safety.) “but hoped to prosecute it with less danger, now they had slain Manahem. It is true, that when the people earnestly desired that they would leave off besieging the soldiers, they were the more earnest in pressing it forward, and this till Metilius, who was the Roman general, sent to Eleazar, and desired that they would give them security to spare their lives only”
- with Gorion, the son of Nicodemus (Gorion was sent to provide security to Metilius and the Roman soldiers.) “The others readily complied with their petition, sent to them Gorion, the son of Nicodemus, and Ananias, the son of Sadduk, and Judas, the son of Jonathan, that they might give them the security Of their right hands, and of their oaths”
- with Ananias, the son of Sadduk (Ananias was sent to provide security to Metilius and the Roman soldiers.) “The others readily complied with their petition, sent to them Gorion, the son of Nicodemus, and Ananias, the son of Sadduk, and Judas, the son of Jonathan, that they might give them the security Of their right hands, and of their oaths”
- with Judas, the son of Jonathan (Judas was sent to provide security to Metilius and the Roman soldiers.) “The others readily complied with their petition, sent to them Gorion, the son of Nicodemus, and Ananias, the son of Sadduk, and Judas, the son of Jonathan, that they might give them the security Of their right hands, and of their oaths”
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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.