c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.401

The Wars of the Jews 1.401

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.401

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

4011. Accordingly, in the fifteenth year of his reign, Herod rebuilt the temple, and encompassed a piece of land about it with a wall, which land was twice as large as that before enclosed. The expenses he laid out upon it were vastly large also, and the riches about it were unspeakable. A sign of which you have in the great cloisters that were erected about the temple, and the citadel which was on its north side. The cloisters he built from the foundation, but the citadel he repaired at a vast expense; nor was it other than a royal palace, which he called Antonia, in honor of Antony.