Alexandrian
People / regional collective
The continuation describes Alexandrian ingenuity, urban water supply, ship fighting and political mobilisation through a hostile participant perspective. These passages give evidence for represented practices and the mechanics of siege warfare. They cannot establish a uniform character shared by every inhabitant of Alexandria.
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Editorial evidence: Alexandrian War 3 · Alexandrian War 5 · Alexandrian War 16
Gallic War 8.0
Hirtius
… But I had not even the good fortune to share in the Alexandrian or African war; and though these were partly communicated to me by Caesar himself, in conversation, yet we listen with a different degree of attention to those things which strike us with admiration by their novelty, and those which we design to attest to posterity. …
Civil War 3.110
Caesar
… These consisted of soldiers of Gabinius who had habituated themselves to Alexandrian life and licence and had unlearnt the name and discipline of the Roman people and married wives by whom very many of them had children. …
Alexandrian War 1
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
WHEN the Alexandrian war flared up, Caesar summoned every fleet from Rhodes and Syria and Cilicia: from Crete he raised archers, and cavalry from Malchus, king of the Nabataeans, and ordered artillery to be procured, corn despatched, and auxiliary troops mustered from every quarter. …
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