In Antioch where the river Assi goes to meet the sea, a bridge was built to bring one half of the city nearer to the other half. It was built of large stones carried down from among the hills, on the backs of the mules of Antioch.
When the bridge was finished, upon a pillar thereof was engraved in Greek and in Aramaic, “This bridge was built by King Antiochus II.”
And all the people walked across the good bridge over the goodly river Assi.
And upon an evening, a youth, deemed by some a little mad, descended to the pillar where the words were engraved, and he covered over the graving with charcoal, and above it wrote,“