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  • ALEXANDER AETO′LUS (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός), a Greek poet and grammarian, who lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus. He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, but spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad. (Suid. s.v.; Eudoc. p. 62; Paus. ii. 22. §7; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xvi. 233.) He had an office in the library at Alexandria, and was commissioned by the king to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant. He spent some time, together with Antagoras and Aratus, at the court of Antigonus Gonatas. (Aratus, Phaenomena et Diosem. ii. pp. 431, 443, &c. 446, ed. Buhle.) Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi. Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman (ἁλιεὺς, Athen. vii. p. 296), Kirka or Krika (Athen. vii. p. 283), which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena. (Bekker, Anecd. p. 96.) Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant. (Athen, iv. p. 170, xi. p. 496, xv. p. 899; Strab. xii. p. 556, xiv. p. 681; Parthen. Erot. 4; Tzetz. ad. Lycophr. 266; Schol. and Eustath. ad Il. iii. 314.) His Cynaedi, or Ἰωνικὰ ποιήματα, are mentioned by Strabo (xiv. p. 648) and Athenaeus. (xiv. p. 620.) Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius. (xv. 20.) All the fragments of Alexander Aetolus are collected in 'Alexandri Aetoli fragmenta coll. et ill. A. Capellmann,' Bonn, 1829, 8vo.; comp. Welcker, Die Griech. Tragödien, p. 1263, &c.; Düntzer, Die Fragm. der Episch. Poesie der Griechen, von Alexand. dem Grossen, &c. p. 7, &c. (Wikisource | public domain)
  • ALEXANDER, of Athens, a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscription given in Böckh (Corp. Inscr. i. p. 765), who refers it to the 145th Olympiad, (B. C. 200.) There seems also to have been a poet of the same name who was a writer of the middle comedy, quoted by the Schol. on Homer (Il. ix. 216), and Aristoph. (Ran. 864), and Athen. (iv. p. 170, e.x. p. 496, c.; Meineke, Fragm. Com. vol i. p. 487.) [C.P. M.] ⁠ (Wikisource | public domain)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain

Lewis Short

Alexander (noun M) : Ἀλέξανδρος, hence, Charis. 64 P. asserts that there is also a nom. Alexandrus, but gives no example
* The name of many persons of antiquity; among whom
* The most renowned is Alexander, son of Philip and Olympia, surnamed Magnus, the founder of the great Macedonian monarchy extending from Macedonia to the Indus (v. his life in Plut. and Curt.).
* Alexander, son of Perseus, king of Macedonia, Liv. 42, 52; 45, 39.
* A tyrant of Pheroe, in Thessaly; hence also sometimes called Pheraeus, Cic. Div. 1, 25; id. Inv. 2, 49; id. Off. 2, 7; Nep. Pelop. 5, 1.
* A king of Epirus, Liv. 8, 3.
* Another name of Paris, son of Priam, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 5, 96; Cic. Fat. 15; Auct. ad Her. 4, 30; hence sometimes, Alexander Paris,Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 76 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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Male Personal name
Confirmed occurences in the Roman Empire:
  • Aemilius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR A 0332 | PIR ID966
  • Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR A 0500 (= I 0136) | PIR ID1158
  • Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR A 0503 | PIR ID1159
  • Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR A 0509 | PIR ID1160
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0495 | PIR ID1161
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0496 | PIR ID1162
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0497 | PIR ID1163
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0498 | PIR ID1164
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0498a | PIR ID1165
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0499 | PIR ID1166
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0501 | PIR ID1167
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0502 | PIR ID1168
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0504 | PIR ID1169
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0505 | PIR ID1170
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0506 | PIR ID1171
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0507 | PIR ID1172
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 0508 | PIR ID1173
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: Aelian. nat. anim. 10, 1 | PIR ID1174
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: IGUR 320 | PIR ID1175
  • Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: P. Oxy. 3117 | PIR ID1176
  • Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: RAC 51, 1975, 31 Nr. 3 | PIR ID1177
  • Alexander (Masc), ref: Plut. quaest. conv. 2, 3, 635 F ff. | PIR ID1178
  • Alexander Lysimachus (Masc), ref: PIR A 0510 | PIR ID1179
  • Alexander Philaletes (Masc), ref: H. v. Staden (ed.), Herophilus, 1989, 532-539 | PIR ID1180
  • Antonius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR A 0811 | PIR ID1563
  • Appius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR A 0945 | PIR ID1744
  • M. Aurelius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 1440 | PIR ID2426
  • Aurelius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 1440a | PIR ID2427
  • M. Aurelius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR A 1441 | PIR ID2428
  • M. Aurelius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: II2/7, 259 | PIR ID2429
  • Aurelius Alexander (Masc), ref: XV 7832 | PIR ID2430
  • Imp. Caesar M. Aurelius Severus Alexander Aug. (Masc, senator), ref: PIR A 1610 | PIR ID3282
  • Claudius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR C 0777 | PIR ID4162
  • Tib. Claudius Alexander qui et M. Aelius (Masc), ref: SEG 44, 1210 | PIR ID4163
  • Domitius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR D 0130 | PIR ID5398
  • T. Flavius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR F 0199 | PIR ID5978
  • C. Iulius Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0136 (= A 0500) | PIR ID7300
  • Iulius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR I 0134 | PIR ID7301
  • Iulius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR I 0135 | PIR ID7302
  • C. Iulius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR I 0137 | PIR ID7303
  • M. Iulius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR I 0138 | PIR ID7304
  • C. Iulius Alexander Berenicianus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0141 | PIR ID7305
  • Ti. Iulius Alexander Capito (Masc, eques), ref: PIR I 0140 | PIR ID7306
  • Ti. Iulius Alexander Iulianus Ti. Iulius Iulianus Alexander Ti. Iulius Philinus Iulianus Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0142 | PIR ID7307
  • Ti. Iulius Alexander Iulianus Ti. Iulius Iulianus Alexander Ti. Iulius Philinus Iulianus Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0142 | PIR ID7307
  • Ti. Iulius Alexander Iulianus Ti. Iulius Iulianus Alexander Ti. Iulius Philinus Iulianus Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0142 | PIR ID7307
  • C. Iulius Thraso Alexander (Masc, senator), ref: PIR I 0600 | PIR ID7830
  • Latinius Alexander Valerianus (Masc), ref: PIR L 0123 | PIR ID8234
  • Cn. Lucretius Alexander (Masc), ref: XV 7486 | PIR ID8558
  • L. Rupillius Alexander Moschianus (Masc), ref: PIR R 0210 | PIR ID11592
  • Septimius Alexander (Masc), ref: IGR 3, 1044 | PIR ID12154
  • T. Sextius Alexander (Masc), ref: PIR S1 0465a | PIR ID12421
  • Terentius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR T1 0050 | PIR ID12968
  • Tiberius Iulius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR I 0139 | PIR ID13122
  • D. Valerius Alexander (Masc), ref: VI 31034 | PIR ID13784
  • Valerius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: PIR V1 0023 | PIR ID13785
  • Valerius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: AE 1942/43, 81 | PIR ID13786
  • Vibius Alexander (Masc, eques), ref: P. Lips. II 146 | PIR ID14356
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