c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.157

The Wars of the Jews 5.157

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.157

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

157Above this solid altitude of the towers, which was twenty cubits, there were rooms of great magnificence, and over them upper rooms, and cisterns to receive rain-water. They were many in number, and the steps by which you ascended up to them were every one broad: