 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 486 pagina’s
...have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate " an entrance into it; and this he did by building three walls " about the inner city, and...burnt brick and bitumen, and some " of brick only. So when he had thus fortified the ,city with " walls, after an excellent manner, and had adorned the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 326 pagina’s
...it in their power to divert the river, so as to " facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building " three walls about the inner city, and...burnt brick and " bitumen, and some of brick only. So when he had thus " fortified the city with walls, after an excellent manner, " and had adorned the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1824 - 356 pagina’s
...have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and...of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only. So when he had thus fortified the city with walls, after an excellent manner, and had adorned the gates... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pagina’s
...it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an en. trance into it ; and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and...of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only. So when he had thus fortified the city with walls, after an excellent manner, and had adorned the gates... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1832 - 468 pagina’s
...•ffXivô'ûu xa* <¿(r<j>áA.Tovf TQVÇ bf èj a¿ri)5 TÎJÇ. TiXit/Sfav. Kai ¡еротерекшс, rest of his baggage, to Babylonia : in the mean time...those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining thqm, but exceeding them in height and splendor. as A. Vulg. — ín f ¡Kt>x\íiju,i Go. Dmd. BEROSSUS.... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1844 - 466 pagina’s
...their entrance ; and for this end he built three walls about the inner city, and three about the other. When he had thus admirably fortified the city, and...also a new palace to those in which his forefathers dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height and splendour. Any attempt to describe it would... | |
 | William Laxton - 1850 - 452 pagina’s
...have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and...only When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pagina’s
...the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building three walls aboat the inner city, and three about the outer. Some of...of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only. So, when he had thus fortified the city with walls, after an excellent manner, and had adorned the... | |
 | George Smith - 1853 - 464 pagina’s
...always been considered among the most remarkable erections of the world. Berosus thus speaks of them : " When he had thus admirably fortified the city, and...dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height and splendour. Any attempt to describe it would be tedious. — In this palace he erected very high walks,... | |
 | George Smith - 1854 - 696 pagina’s
...always been considered among the most remarkable erections of the world. Berosus thus speaks of them : " When he had thus admirably fortified the city, and...dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height and splendour. Any attempt to describe it would be tedious. la this palace he erected very high walks,... | |
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Babylon, that none who should besiege it afterwards might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and three about the outer. 
