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, p. 131.

[274] Quoted by Alexander Polyhistor and Eusebius; see G. A. Smith, _Jerusalem_, II, 462.

[275] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XIII, xiii, 5.

[276] _Ibid._, XIV, ii, 1.

[277] _Ibid._, XIV, iv, 2.

[278] _Ibid._, XIV, xiii, 3, 4, 5.

[279] _Ibid._, XIV, xv, 2; xvi.

[280] _Ibid._, XV, viii, 5.

[281] Josephus, _Wars of the Jews_, V, iv, 3.

[282] _Ibid._, V, iv, 4. (See Fig. 256.)

[283] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XVII, ix, 3; _Wars of the Jews_, II, ii, 2; xiv, 8.

[284] Colonel Conder, the late Dr. Merrill, Georg Gatt, Dr. Rückert, and Dr. Mommert.

[285] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XV, viii, 1.

[286] See _Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1887, p. 161, ff. Dr. Schick calls it an amphitheater, but it is simply a theater of the Greek type.

[287] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XV, xi, 2.

[288] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XX, ix, 7.

[289] _Ibid._, XV, xi, 3.

[290] Above it was a chamber 30 cubits high.

[291] Josephus, _Wars of the Jews_, V, v, 6.

[292] See Josephus, _Wars of the Jews_, V, v, and the Mishna tract _Middoth_ for the authority for this description. For a fuller description, see G. A. Smith, _Jerusalem_, II, Chapter XVIII .

[293] See