. canal from theEunostus to the Lake Mareotis. The city wasbuilt on a regular plan; and was intersected bytwo principal streets, above 100 feet wide, theone extending 30 stadia from E. to W., the otheracross this, from the sea towards the lake, to thelength of 10 stadia. The city was divided intothree regions : the Brucheium, which was theRoyal, or Greek, region at the eastern end, theJews quarter at the NE. angle, and theRhacotis or Egyptian quarter on the west,beyond which, and outside of the city, was theNecropolis or cemetery. A
. canal from theEunostus to the Lake Mareotis. The city wasbuilt on a regular plan; and was intersected bytwo principal streets, above 100 feet wide, theone extending 30 stadia from E. to W., the otheracross this, from the sea towards the lake, to thelength of 10 stadia. The city was divided intothree regions : the Brucheium, which was theRoyal, or Greek, region at the eastern end, theJews quarter at the NE. angle, and theRhacotis or Egyptian quarter on the west,beyond which, and outside of the city, was theNecropolis or cemetery. A great lighthousewas built on the I. of Pharos in the reign ofPtolemy Philadelphus ( 283). Under thecare of the Ptolemies, as the capital of a greatkingdom and of the most fertile country on theearth, and commanding by its position all thecommerce of Europe with the East, Alexandriasoon became the most wealthy and splendidcity of the known world. Greeks, Jews, andother foreigners flocked to it; and its popula-tion probably amounted to three quarters of a. H alter &? Boutall sc. Plan of Alexandria. Alexandria, oftener -la, rarely -ea ( : AAe£av8pevs, Alexandrlnus), the name ofseveral cities founded by, or in memory of Alex-ander the Great.—1. (Alexandria, Arab. Iskan-deria), the capital of Egypt under the Ptolemies,ordered by Alexander (who himself traced theground plan) to be founded in 332. ( 791; Arrian, iii. 1; Curt. iv. 8 ; Amm. Marc,xxii. 40 ; Plin. v. 10; Polyb. xxxix. 14; iii. 112.) It was built on the narrowneck of land between the Lake Mareotis andthe Mediterranean, opposite to the I. of Pharos, million (in Diod. Sic. xvii. 52 the free citizensalone are reckoned at 300,000, 58). Underthe empire the food of the populations of Romeand Constantinople depended largely on thedespatch of the corn-ships from fame was greatly increased through thefoundation, by the first two Ptolemies, of theMuseum, an establishment
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