c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.419

The Wars of the Jews 1.419

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.419

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

41910. And as he transmitted to eternity his family and friends, so did he not neglect a memorial for himself, but built a fortress upon a mountain towards Arabia, and named it from himself, Herodium; and he called that hill that was of the shape of a woman’s breast, and was sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem, by the same name. He also bestowed much curious art upon it, with great ambition,