Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius `dagger-men`, in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea. The Sica.....
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(from the article `Zealot`) Extremists among the Zealots turned to terrorism and assassination and became known as Sicarii (Greek sikarioi, `dagger men`). They frequented public ... ...during the civil war that followed; many of them perished in the sack of Jerusalem by the Roman general (and later emperor) Titus (reigned 79&#...
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