ALEXANDER

See also:

• CORNELIUS
• CORNELIUS, CARL AUGUST PETER (1824-1874)
• CORNELIUS, PETER VON (1784–1867)

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 ('Miller, Faagmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.) those relating to the Jews are important as containing quotations from lost Jewish authors .