Note 041
See Memoires de l'Acad. des Inscriptions, tom. ix. p.
397-416. The old library of the Ptolemies was totally
consumed in Caesar's Alexandrian war. Marc Antony gave the
whole collection of Pergamus (200,000 volumes) to Cleopatra,
as the foundation of the new library of Alexandria.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
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