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Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) 98 0 Browse Search
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) 68 0 Browse Search
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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arcadia, chapter 16 (search)
d by Hephaestus on the shield of Achilles to a dance made by Daedalus, because he had never seen more clever workmanship. I know many wonderful graves, and will mention two of them, the one at Halicarnassus and one in the land of the Hebrews. The one at Halicarnassus was made for Mausolus, king of the city, and it is of such vast size, and so notable for all its ornament, that the Romans in their great admiration of it call remarkable tombs in their country “Mausolea.” The Hebrews have a grave, that of Helen, a native woman, in the city of Jerusalem, which the Roman Emperor razed to the ground. There is a contrivance in the grave whereby the door, which like all the grave is of stone, does not open until the year brings back the same day and the same hour. Then the mechanism, unaided, opens the door, which, after a short interval, shuts itself. This happens at that time, but should you at any other try to open the door you cannot do so; force will not open it, but only break it do