The Antiquities of the Jews, 8.177

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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177but let no one imagine that these pine trees were like those which are now so named, and which take that their denomination from the merchants, who so call them, that they may procure them to be admired by those that purchase them; for those we speak of were to the sight like the wood of the fig tree, but were whiter, and more shining.

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