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[294] That is, the “Pool of Israel.”

[295] _Wars of the Jews_, V, iv, 2.

[296] The city, restored under the heathen name of Ælia Capitolina by the Emperor Hadrian in 135 A. D., made Christian by Constantine in 325, sacked by the Persian Chosroes in 614, taken by the Arabs in 636, captured after many vicissitudes in 1072 by the Seljuk Turks, made by the First Crusade the seat of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1187, when Saladin took it, was once more after many other vicissitudes captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1517.

[297] _Historia Naturalis_, V, xviii, 74.

[298] Josephus, _Wars of the Jews_, I, vii, 7.

[299] See