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Headword:
*sika/rioi
Adler number: sigma,388
Translated headword: sicarii, assassins
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of bandits. Romans call curved swords sicae, and those who use them used to be called sicarii.[1]
These men used to kill people they encountered during the reign of Claudius; an Egyptian bandit led them out into the desert; and Felix took vengeance on them.[2]
The Pharisees are called sicarii, as [sc. being] Zealots.[3]
Greek Original:*sika/rioi: lh|stw=n ge/nos. si/kas de\ ta\ e)pikamph= ci/fh *(rwmai=oi kalou=sin, oi(=s oi( xrw/menoi e)le/gonto sika/rioi. ou(=toi tou\s paratugxa/nontas e)/kteinon e)pi\ *klaudi/ou de\ tou= basile/ws: ou(\s *ai)gu/ptios lh|sth\s e)pi\ th\n e)/rhmon e)ch/gagen: ou(\s e)timwrh/sato *fi/lhc. *sika/rioi de\ le/gontai oi( *farisai=oi, w(s *zhlwtai/.
Notes:
The headword, here in the nominative plural, is a transliteration of the Latin word
sicarius, "dagger-man," i.e., assassin.
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge (sigma75) and
Photius (sigma198 Theodoridis); and cf. generally
Josephus,
Jewish War 2.254-263 and
Jewish Antiquities 20.160-172.
[2] George the Monk,
Chronicon 327.4-9; cf.
Acts of the Apostles 21:38. Antonius Felix was procurator of Judaea from AD 52-ca.60, if not a few years earlier; he was the brother of Pallas, Claudius' powerful imperial freedman.
[3] On the Pharisees see
phi 94,
phi 95; on the Zealots,
zeta 66.
Grünewald, T. Räuber, Rebellen, Rivalen, Rächer: Studien zu Latrones im römischen Reich, FAS 31, Stuttgart, 1999; = Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality, translated by J. Drinkwater, London and New York, 2004
Hengel, Martin. The Zealots: Investigations into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70 A.D., translated by David Smith (from the 1976 second German edn of Die Zeloten), Edinburg, 1989
Horsley, R.A., with John S. Hanson, Bandits, Prophets and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus, Minneapolis, 1985
Riess, W. Apuleius und die Räuber: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Kriminalitätsforschung, Stuttgart, 2001
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; politics; religion
Translated by: Christopher Fuhrmann on 14 February 2009@22:03:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified aspects of tr; augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 15 February 2009@05:03:25.
David Whitehead (tweaking; raised status) on 24 December 2013@06:04:56.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 November 2014@11:01:00.
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