Fortress built by Antiochus Epiphanes in the year 173 B.C. at
Jerusalem, on an outlying spur of the Temple mount toward the
south, where he placed a garrison, stored provisions, and kept
armor. The Greek (I Macc. i. 33) reads "Acra," which has been
translated as if it were not a proper name. Josephus, B. J. v.
4, § 1; vi. 6, § 3; xii. 5, § 4;