Library Eusebius of Caesarea Preparation for the Gospel
Book 9, Chapter 9
[JOSEPHUS] [10] 'CHOERILUS also, an ancient poet, has mentioned the Jewish nation, and how they served with king Xerxes in his expedition against Greece. And thus he speaks:
'Now that he spake this concerning Jews is evident from the fact that Hierosolyma lies on the mountains called by the Greeks Solyma, and that near it is the Asphaltic lake, which is very broad as the poet says, and larger than any of the lakes in Syria.'
Such then is this man's testimony.
English translation by E. H. Gifford, Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae Praeparationis Libri XV (Oxford, 1903). Public domain. Digital text via Roger Pearse / tertullian.org.