3; Mishnah, _Megilla_, iii.

1; _Rosh Hasshana_, iv.

7, etc.

See especially the curious description of the synagogue of Alexandria in the Talmud of Babylon, _Sukka_, 51 _b_.] [Footnote 5: Philo, quoted in Eusebius, _Praep.

Evang._, viii.