Corinthus

Family: Arabian · Role: bodyguard · First appears: Book I, Chapter 29

In Book I, Chapter 29, Corinthus, an Arabian bodyguard brought up in Herod’s kingdom, was described as one of Herod’s guards whom Sylleus had corrupted with bribes. After a plot attributed to Sylleus was exposed, Herod ordered Corinthus arrested along with two other Arabians; under torture, they confessed that they had persuaded him, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod. After further examination before Saturninus, the president of Syria, they were sent to Rome.

Relationship record

Life events

• Herod arrests Corinthus and two Arabians after Sylleus's alleged assassination plot is exposed.(Book I, Chapter 29)
  • With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) Sylleus
  • “Accordingly, the king complied; for this Corinthus, though he was brought up in Herod's kingdom, yet was he by birth an Arabian; so the king ordered him to be taken up immediately, and not only him, but two other Arabians, who were caught with him; the one of them was Sylleus's friend, the other the head of a tribe. These last, being put to the torture, confessed that they had prevailed with Corinthus, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod; and when they had been further examined before Saturninus, the president of Syria, they were sent to Rome.”

Book I, Chapter 29

• with Sylleus (Sylleus bribed Corinthus to participate in a plot against Herod.) “Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of his body, by bribing him, and of whom he must therefore have a care.”
• with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Corinthus was one of Herod's bodyguards.) “Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of his body, by bribing him, and of whom he must therefore have a care.”
• with Sylleus (Sylleus bribed Corinthus) “Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of his body, by bribing him”
• with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Corinthus was involved in a plot to kill Herod) “These last, being put to the torture, confessed that they had prevailed with Corinthus, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod”
• with Saturninus (Corinthus was examined before Saturninus) “and when they had been further examined before Saturninus, the president of Syria, they were sent to Rome.”

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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.