Sextus Caesar
Family: Roman · Role: president of Syria · First appears: Book I, Chapter 10
Sextus Caesar, a kinsman of Caesar, served as president of Syria. At Jerusalem, he ordered Hyrcanus to acquit Herod of the capital charge, and Hyrcanus dismissed it, being otherwise inclined to do so because he loved Herod. Sextus then appointed Herod general of Coelesyria and Samaria, making him formidable through both popular goodwill and his own power.
At Apamia, Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar, an act that caused civil war; Bassus then took authority over Sextus’s forces out of goodwill toward Pompey. As the war continued, Marcus arrived from Italy as Sextus’s successor.
Relationship record
Life events
- Sextus Caesar ordered Hyrcanus to acquit Herod, and Hyrcanus dismissed the capital charge.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Jerusalem)
- With: Hyrcanus (unresolved ch010) Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “so he sent some to denounce expressly to Hyrcanus that he should acquit Herod of the capital charge against him; who acquitted him accordingly, as being otherwise inclined also so to do, for he loved Herod.”
- Sextus Caesar appointed Herod general of Coelesyria and Samaria.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Coelesyria and Samaria)
- With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “And now, since Herod was made general of Coelesyria and Samaria by Sextus Caesar, he was formidable, not only from the good-will which the nation bore him, but by the power he himself had;”
- Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar and seized authority over his forces.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Apamia)
- With: Cecilius Bassus Pompey
- “there was a disturbance among the Romans about Apamia, and a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus, which he perpetrated out of his good-will to Pompey; he also took the authority over his forces;”
- Marcus arrived from Italy as successor to Sextus Caesar.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Italy)
- With: Marcus
- “and as this war grew to be of a considerable length, Marcus came out of Italy as successor to Sextus.”
Book I, Chapter 10
- protégé: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) “he sent some to denounce expressly to Hyrcanus that he should acquit Herod of the capital charge against him”
- enemies with Cecilius Bassus “a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus”
- with Marcus (interaction) “Marcus came out of Italy as successor to Sextus”
- with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (They became acquainted.) “on which occasion he became acquainted with Sextus Caesar, a kinsman of the great Caesar, and president of Syria”
- with Cecilius Bassus (Cecilius Bassus treacherously killed Sextus Caesar.) “a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus”
- with Caesar (murdered ruler) (interaction) “a kinsman of the great 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.