and when they had first made it thus, they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber, raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps, and when the stone got up to this it was placed upon another machine standing on the first stage, and so from this it was drawn to the second upon another machine; for as many as were the courses of the steps, so many machines there were also, or perhaps they transferred one and the same machine, made so as easily to be carried, to each stage successively, in order that they might take up the stones;
eta harria honaino jaso orduko, lehenengo iladan jarritako hurrengo makinan ipintzen zuten eta hemendik bigarren iladara arrastatzen zuten beste makina baten gainera. Izan ere, harmaila-ilada bezainbat makina zeuden; edota, bakarra eta eramanerraza izanik, makina bera aldatzen zuten iladaz ilada, harria kendu ondoren;