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Csesar saw Alexander's body at Alexandria, and placed it upon a 

 golden crown, and scattered flowers upon it. 



7. Bio Cassius (51, 16) says that Augustus saw Alexander's 

 body at Alexandria and touched it, and was said to have 

 accideritally broken off a part of the nose. 



8. Strabo (XVII., 1) says that the Sema was an enclosure near 

 the Museum at Alexandria, in which were the tombs of Alexander 

 the Great and of the royal Ptolemies. He adds that Ptolemy 

 buried Alexander's body in this Mausoleum, where " it now still 

 lies ; not, indeed, in the same coffin, for the present one is of 

 transparent alabaster (hyalos). Ptolemy deposited it in a golden 

 coffin, which was carried off by Cocces and Ptolemy Pareisactos." 

 This took place about 57 B.C., this Ptolemy being originally 

 named Saleucus, and called in derision Cybisactes, dealer in salt 

 fish. 



Here we have precise statements by three out of the five 

 historians of Alexander that he was buried at Alexandria. 

 Justin agrees that the original order was that he should be buried at 

 Ammon in the desert. Plutarch says nothing about the burial. 

 From Strabo, Dio Cassius, and Suetonius we learn that the 

 embalmed body was in existence at Alexandria 300 years after 

 the deatli, and from Curtius that in the fourth century after the 

 burial every honour was paid to him at Alexandria. 



