Alexandria

But fortune was so perverse a lover that I had to journey either toward Persia, going forward into the farthest reaches of the barbarian lands—for you went even there, so great was the contentiousness of my evil genius—or else to sit here in Alexandria, which is in fact what came to pass.

To Peter, Bishop of Alexandria

For I, having received letters from the most blessed father Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria — which I both hold in my hands and put forward to those who seek them, in which he plainly declared that if anyone from the heresy of the Arians wished to change over, confessing the faith of Nicaea, this man should be received, drawing no distinction against him — and having as partners with me in th …

'When I was proquaestor at Alexandria, Antiochus was with me, and already before that there was at Alexandria a friend of Antiochus, Heraclitus of Tyre, who had been a pupil of Clitomachus for many years and of Philo as well — a man approved and renowned in that philosophy which is now almost dismissed but is being recalled.

'These things Antiochus said, both then at Alexandria, and many years afterward much more emphatically, when he was with me in Syria a little before he died.

From this to the victory of Augustus, when Antony slew himself in Alexandria, two hundred and ninety-four years, when Augustus was consul for the fourth time.

For while the Macedonians still held Asia, the king, being ambitious to adorn with all writings the library founded by him in Alexandria, requested the men of Jerusalem to interpret their prophecies into the Greek dialect.

on his father's side an Alexandrian, on his mother's a Cephallenian.

id vero tantum hinc abest, ut ne centum quidem anni exierint, ex quo tota fere negotiatio Indica penes Venetos fuit, per Alexandrinas traiectiones.

that, however, is so far from being the case that not even a hundred years had elapsed since the Venetians controlled nearly the entire trade with the East Indies, carrying it via Alexandria.

So also under the Roman government the people of Alexandria, as we are informed by Strabo, enjoyed the monopoly of all Indian and Ethiopian goods.

This appears from Philo, in whose writings we find the Jews of Alexandria, upon the calamity of Flaccus, their persecutor, addressing themselves to God in the following language, “We do not rejoice, O Lord, in the calamity or punishment of an enemy, being taught by thy holy laws to feel for the miseries of men.

A leader of this state, Demetrius of Phalerum, when he had been driven from his country by injustice, betook himself to king Ptolemy at Alexandria.

I say nothing of the fruits of speculation in Alexandria and the East, but I confidently affirm that Rome and the West had an occupation in hand fully capable of compensating them for the absence of every other mental exercise, and I add that the results achieved, so far as we know them, were not unworthy of the continuous and exclusive labor bestowed on producing them.

In the first place it does not accept a lowly fatherland, Ephesus or Alexandria, or any soil yet more thronged with inhabitants or more crowded with dwellings;

Forty thousand books burned at Alexandria;

but, lapsing into a woman, a deserter of Marcionite continence, he withdrew from the eyes of his most holy master to Alexandria.