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number of books. [[deletion]] & [[/deletion]] But many years after King Selencus whose surname was Vicanor, took care to send those books back. [[addition]] [[unclear]] [[/addition]] After that a great number of books were got together in AEgypt by the Ptolem [[deletion]] e [[/deletion]] ys, al [[deletion]] l [[/deletion]] most to the number of 700000 vollumes. [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] By the [[unclear]] [[deletion]] 400 000) [[/deletion]] But these [[deletion]] were [[/deletion]] all [[deletion]] but [[/deletion]] or at least 400000 as execa [[deletion]] on the town of [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] witnesses were all burnt in the [[deletion]] in the time of the war [[/deletion]] city of Alexandria about the [[deletion]] between [[unclear]] the [[unclear]] of Pompey. [[/deletion]] time of the war between Caesar & the [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] sons of Pompey. Ptolemy [[addition]] had furnish'd [[/addition]] Philadelphus [[deletion]] that get [[unclear]] built [[/deletion]] the AEgyptian library [[deletion]] of [[/deletion]] [[addition]] both with [[/addition]] profane, & also [[deletion]] of [[/deletion]] [[addition]] with [[/addition]] sacred books which he had got out of Judea. For when
