All eyes followed his pointing finger.
"This part was raised by order of the first of the Seleucidae. Three hundred years have made it part of the rock it rests upon."
The defense justified the encomium. High, solid, and with many bold angles, it curved southwardly out of view.
"On the top there are four hundred towers, each a reservoir of water," the Hebrew continued. "Look now! Over the wall, tall as it is, see in the distance two hills, which you may know as the rival crests of Sulpius. The structure on the farthest one is the citadel,garrisoned all the year round by a Roman legion.Opposite it this way rises the Temple of Jupiter, and under that the front of the legate's residence-a palace full of offices, and yet a fortress against which a mob would dash harmlessly as a south wind."