Sicarii

Joseph. Antiq. l. 20. c. 7. p. 697.SICARII; thus named from the Latin Word Sica, a Dagger. These were certain Robbers or Assassins, that appeared in Judea some time before the War of the Jews against the Romans. Josephus says, that these Wretches carry’d their Daggers secretly about them, so as not to be perceiv’d, and mixing themselves with the Multitude of People that came to the great Feasts at Jerusalem, they stabb’d whom they thought fit, and then were commonly the first to cry out Murder.

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