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XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1493.

1493.

Ammianus Marcellinus asserts that seven hundred thousand volumes of books were burnt in the siege of Alexandria in the time of Julius Cesar. 828

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  1. 450:828

    : Ammiani Marcellini historiarum libri qui extant XIII, published at Rome in 1474.

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