“Now I shall tell of the city of Zenobia, which is wonderful in this fashion: though set on dry terrain it stands on high pilings, and the houses are of bamboo and zinc, with many platforms and balconies placed on stilts at various heights, crossing one another, linked by adders and hanging sidewalks, surmounted by cone-roofed elvederes, barrels storing water, weather vanes, jutting pulleys, and fish poles, and cranes.”
a bag of holding 