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4, then by Ptolemeus the firſt, then by Antiochus Epiphaneos, and again by Appollonius' deputy; after which, it was taken by Pompey, and robbed by Craſſus, in his Parthian expedition. Yet all the loſſes the temple and city ſuſtained, were repaired by Herod the Great, who enlarged the city, newbuilt the temple, and left it both ſtately and glorious; It was compaſſed with three ſtrong walls, the third wall had ninety towers, the ſecond wall had fourteen, and the old wall had ſixty. Agrippa built a fourth wall ten cubits high, but did not finiſh it, leſt Claudius Caeſar ſhould think he deſigned to rebel; yet the Jews afterwards built it twenty cubits high, and raiſed a battlement two cubits; and built three towers thereon: all their towers were built of white marble, each ſtone being twenty cubits long, ten broad and five thick, ſo curiouſly joined, that they ſeemed but one ſtone, and the compaſs of the city from the north to the weſt, was forty-three furlongs

Within the city was the King's palace, ſurpaſſing all in the world for largeneſs and workmanſhip, environed with a wall, which was thirty cubits high, adorned with towers, and beautified with houſes to an hundred of the nobility; and in every room were many veſſels of gold and ſilver, and porches adorned with curious pillars, and many pleaſant walks, with all manner of trees and tains,