ts of two cubits, and turrets of three cubits altitude,
insomuch that the entire altitude extended as far as twenty-five cubits.

3. Now the towers that were upon it were twenty cubits in breadth, and
twenty cubits in height; they were square and solid, as was the wall
itself, wherein the niceness of the joints, and the beauty of the
stones, were no way inferior to those of the holy house itself. Above
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: of these towers then the
third wall had ninety, and the spaces between them were each two hundred
cubits; but in the middle wall were forty towers, and the old wall was
parted into sixty, while the whole compass of the city was thirty-three
furlongs. Now the third wall was all of it wonderful; yet was the tower
Psephinus elevated above it at the north-west corner, and there Titus
pitched his own tent; for being seventy cubits high it both afforded a
prospect of Arabia at sun-rising, as well as it did of the utmost limits
of the Hebrew possessions at the sea westward. Moreover, it was an
octagon, and over against it was the tower Hipplicus, and hard by two
others were erected by king Herod, in the old wall. These were for
largeness, beauty, and strength beyond all that were in the habitable
earth; for besides the magnanimity of his nature, and his magnificence
towards the city on other occasions, he built these after such an
extraordinary manner, to gratify his own private affections, and
dedicated these towers to the memory of those three persons who had been
the dearest to him, and from whom he named them. They were his brother,
his friend, and his wife. This wife he had slain, out of his love [and
jealousy], as we have already related; the other two he lost in war, as
they were courageously fighting. Hippicus, so named from his friend,
was square; its length and breadth were each twenty-five cubits, and its
height thirty, and it had no vacuity in it. Over this solid building,
which was composed of great stones united together, there was a
reservoir twenty cubits deep, over which there was a house of two
stories, whose height was twenty-five cubits, and divided into several
parts; over which were battlements of two cubits, and turrets all round
of three cubits high, in