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Sicarii


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(Lat., ‘men armed with curved daggers’).

Jewish resistance fighters against the Romans in the 1st cent. ce. According to Josephus, the Sicarii assassinated the high priest, Jonathan, and held the fortress of Masada in 70 ce.

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