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