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Alexander Cornelius
Alexander Cornelius, Greek grammarian, surnamed Polyhistor
from his great learning, born at Miletus or Myndus[?] in
Caria, flourished about 70 B.C. He was taken prisoner in
the Mithridatic war[?] by Sulla, from whom (or from Cornelius Lentulus[?]) he received his freedom and assumed the name
Cornelius. He accompanied Crassus on his Parthian
campaigns, and perished at the destruction by fire of his
house at Laurentum[?]. He is said to have written "books
without number," chiefly on historical and geographical
subjects. Of the extant fragments (Müller, Fragmenta
Historicorum Graecorum, iii:) those relating to the Jews are
important as containing quotations from lost Jewish authors.
Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed
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