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| Form: Gaius Iulius. | |
| A Roman writer who composed, probably in the second half of the 3rd century A.D., a collection of Memorabiliaa (Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, better known by its later title Polyhistor). The most important portion (the geographical) is an abstract of a treatise on geography compiled from Pliny's Natural History. | |
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