Chapter Alderman to Alexandrian School of A by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

A eunuch, having escaped, told Darius of this noble continence, and Darius could not but admire such nobility in a rival. - Arrïan Anabasis of Alexander , iv. 20. (See Continence)

Alexander so Paris, son of Priam, was called by the shepherds who brought him up.

Alexander of the North Charles XII of Sweden, so called from his military achievements. He was conquered at Pultowa, in Russia (1709), by Czar Peter the Great (1682--1718).

Repressing here
The frantic Alexander of the North."
Thomson: Winter.

The Persian Alexander. Sandjar (1117.1158).

Alexander the Corrector. Alexander Cruden, author of the "Concordance to the Bible," who petitioned Parliament to constitute him "Corrector of the People," and went about constantly with a sponge to wipe out the licentious, coarse, and profane chalk scrawls which met his eye. (1701--1770)

Alexander's Beard A smooth chin, no beard at all. An Amazonian chin.

"Disgracëd yet with Alexander's bearde." Gascoigne: The Steele Glas.

Alexandra (in Orlando Furioso). Oronthea's daughter; the Amazon queen.

Alexandra so Cassandra, daughter of Priam, is called. The two names are mere variants of each other.

Alexandrian Anything from the East was so called by the old chroniclers and romancers, because Alexandria was the depôt from which Eastern stores reached Europe.

"Reclined on Alexandrian carpets (i.e., Persian). Rose: Orlando Furioso, x. 37.

Alexandrian Codex A manuscript of the Scriptures in Greek, which belonged to the library of the patriarchs of Alexandria, in Africa, A.D. 1098. In 1628 it was sent as a present to Charles I, and (in 1753) was placed in the British Museum. It is on parchment, in uncial letters, and contains the Septuagint version (except the Psalms), a part of the New Testament, and the Epistles of Clemens Romanus.

Alexandrian Library Founded by Ptolemy Soter, in Alexandria, in Egypt. The tale is that it was burnt and partly consumed in 391; but when the city fell into the hands of the calif Omar, in 642, the Arabs found books sufficient to "heat the baths of the city for six months." It is said that it contained 700,000 volumes.

Alexandrian School An academy of literature by Ptolemy, son of Lagos, especially famous for its grammarians and mathematicians. Of its grammarians the most noted are Aristarchos, Harpocration, and Eratosthenes; and of its mathematicians, Ptolemy and Euclid, the former an astronomer, and the latter the geometer whose Elements are still very generally used.