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ALEXANDER CORNELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:CORNELIUS , See also:Greek grammarian, surnamed POLYHISTOR from his See also:great learning, See also:born at See also:Miletus or Myndus in See also:Caria, flourished about 70 B.C. He was taken prisoner in the Mithridatic See also:war by See also:Sulla, from whom (or from Cornelius See also:Lentulus) he received his freedom and assumed the name Cornelius. He accompanied See also:Crassus on his See also:Parthian See also:campaigns, and perished at the destruction by See also:fire of his See also:house at Laurentum. He is said to have written " books without number," chiefly on See also:historical and See also:geographical subjects. Of the extant fragments ('See also:Miller, Faagmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.) those See also:relating to the See also:Jews are important as containing quotations from lost Jewish authors.

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