Alexas (of John's party)

Also known as: Alexas · Family: John's party · Role: fighter · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 1

Book VI, Chapter 1

with John (unresolved ch090) (Alexas fought as a member of John's party.) “Now those that most signalized themselves, and fought most zealously in this battle of the Jewish side, were one Alexas and Gyphtheus, of John's party,”
enemies with Julian (Julian fought on the Roman side against the Jewish fighters named in the concluding account.) “Thus when Julian had struggled with death a great while, and had let but few of those that had given him his mortal wound go off unhurt, he had at last his throat cut, though not without some difficulty, and left behind him a very great fame, not only among the Romans, and with Caesar himself, but among his enemies also; then did the Jews catch up his dead body, and put the Romans to flight again, and shut them up in the tower of Antonia. Now those that most signalized themselves, and fought most zealously in this battle of the Jewish side, were one Alexas and Gyphtheus, of John's party,”

with John (unresolved ch091) (Alexas is identified as one of John's combatants.) “of those that were with John, Gyphtheus and Alexas”

Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.