sicarii

"Another kind of robbers sprang up in Jerusalem, called sicarii, who slew men in the day time, and in the midst of the city," &c.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Fear and sorrow keep them temperate and sober, and free them from any dissolute acts, which jollity and boldness thrust men upon: they are therefore no sicarii, roaring boys, thieves or assassins.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Judas' second name, which is usually given as ‘Iscariot’ is now believed by the majority of scholars to derive from sicarii, the name of one such group.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Judas' second name, which is usually given as ‘Iscariot’ is now believed by the majority of scholars to derive from sicarii, the name of one such group.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Aramaic -- informing all that this Man who was thus enduring a shameful, servile death -- this Man thus crucified between two _sicarii_ in the sight of the world, was "THE KING OF THE JEWS."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

Felix favoured the sicarii in order that he might utilise them; against the others his hostility raged with indiscriminating cruelty, yet without being able to check them.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

When the great Roman orator was given up by Augustus to the revenge of Antony, it was a cobbler who conducted the sicarii to

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Utlages, forestiers, latrunculi (robberlets), sicarii, cutthroats, sauvages, who prided themselves upon sleeping on the bare ground; they were accursed by the conquerors, and beloved by the conquered.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

I am warned to be on my guard, as he is very capable of employing _sicarii_ -- this is Latin as well as Italian, so you can understand it; but I have arms, and don't mind them, thinking that I could pepper his ragamuffins, if they don't come unawares, and that, if they do, one may as well end that way as another; and it would besides serve

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

And then it was that the sicarii, as they were called, who were robbers, grew numerous.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709