IV. RUFUS (Terentius) or, as the Jews call him, Turnus Rufus; he was left by Titus at Jerusalem with the tenth Legion, after the Destruction and Desolation of that City. a The Jews assure us, that Rufus caused the Plough to go over it. He sent to Titus one of the Chiefs of the Jews, call’d Simon of Gioras, who had hid himself in one of the Common Sewers of the Temple.
Library / Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged
Volume II · R
Rufus (IV)
Spotted an error in this section? Report it
To cite this page
Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Rufus (IV),” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/r/rufus-4/.