at the tower Hippicus, whence it reached as far as the north quarter
of the city, and the tower Psephinus, and then was so far extended till
it came over against the monuments of Helena, which Helena was queen of
Adiabene, the daughter of Izates; it then extended further to a great
length, and passed by the sepulchral caverns of the kings, and bent
again at the tower of the corner, at the monument which is called the
"Monument of the Fuller," and joined to the old wall at the valley
called the "Valley of Cedron." It was Agrippa who encompassed the parts
added to the old city with this wall, which had been all naked before;
for as the city grew more populous, it gradually crept beyond its old
limits, and those parts of it that stood northward of the temple,
and joined that hill to the city, made it considerably larger, and
occasioned that hill, which is in number the fourth, and is called
"Bezetha," to be inhabited also. It lies over against the tower Antonia,
but is divided from it by a deep valley, which was dug on purpose, and
that in order to hinder the foundations of the tower of Antonia from
joining to this hill, and thereby affording an opportunity for getting
to it with ease, and hindering the security that arose from its superior
elevation; for which reason also that depth of the ditch made the
elevation of the towers more remarkable. This new-built part of the
city was called "Bezetha," in our language, which, if interpreted in the
Grecian language, may be called "the New City." Since, therefore, its
inhabitants stood in need of a covering, the father of the present king,
and of the same name with him, Agrippa, began that wall we spoke of; but
he left off building it when he had only laid the foundations, out of
the fear he was in of Claudius Caesar, lest he should suspect that
so strong a wall was built in order to make some innovation in public
affairs; for the city could no way have been taken if that wall had
been finished in the manner it was begun; as its parts were connected
together by stones twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad, which could
never have been either easily undermined by any iron tools, or shaken
by any engines. The wall was, however, ten cubits wide, and it would
probably have had a height greater than that, had not his zeal who began
it been hindered from exerting itself. After this, it was erected with
great diligence by the Jews, as high as twenty cubits, above which it
had battlemen