Noarus

Family: Agrippa's kingdom · Role: companion and procurator · First appears: Book II, Chapter 18

Life events

Noarus had seventy prominent men from Batanea killed by the king’s armed men.(Book II, Chapter 18)
- “This Noarus sent out some of the king's armed men by night, and slew all those [seventy] men;”
Agrippa ended Noarus’s procuratorship after learning of the unauthorized massacre.(Book II, Chapter 18)
- With: Agrippa (the present king)
- “until Agrippa was informed of it, who did not indeed dare to put him to death, out of regard to Sohemus; but still he put an end to his procuratorship immediately.”

with Sohemus (king of Emesa) (They were kin.) “which Noarus was of kin to king Sohemus.”
with Agrippa (the present king) (Noarus was Agrippa's companion and was left in charge of public affairs.) “for he was himself gone to Cestius Gallus, to Antioch, but had left one of his companions, whose name was Noarus, to take care of the public affairs”

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