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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


Footnotes

450:828 : Ammiani Marcellini historiarum libri qui extant XIII, published at Rome in 1474.


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