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Rufus (IV)

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.

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