The Jewish War
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In the fifteenth year of his reign he restored the existing Sanctuary and round it enclosed an area double the former size, keeping no account of the cost and achieving a magnificence beyond compare. This could be seen particularly in the great colonnades that ran around the entire Temple and the fortress tower over it to the north. The former were completely new structures, and the latter an extremely costly reconstruction, as luxurious as a palace, and named Antonia in honor of Antony. His own Palace built in the Upper City, consisted of two very large and very lovely buildings which made even the Sanctuary seem insignificant: these he named after his friends, one Caesareum, one Agrippeum.
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