c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.334

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.334

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.334

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

334So Herod endeavored to rectify this inconvenience, and laid out such a compass towards the land as might be sufficient for a haven, wherein the great ships might lie in safety; and this he effected by letting down vast stones of above fifty feet in length, not less than eighteen in breadth, and nine in depth, into twenty fathom deep; and as some were lesser, so were others bigger than those dimensions.