c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.412

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.412

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.412

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

412and this cloister deserves to be mentioned better than any other under the sun; for while the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this further vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth.