A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

of AEGAE (Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος), a peripatetic philosopher, who flourished at Rome in the first century, and a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes, whose calculations

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were used by Julius Caesar for his correction of the year. He was tutor to the emperor Nero. (Suidas, s. v. Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος; Suet. Tib. 57.)

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