Sicarii
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Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius 'dagger-men' or later contract-killer, Hebrew סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, (probably) to an extremist splinter group of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from Judea using concealed daggers (sicae).
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