Quintus Curtius Rufus writes (7.3.23):
XVII dierum spatio Caucasum superavit exercitus. Rupes in eo X in
circuitu stadia conplectitur, IIII in altitudinem excedit, in qua
vinctum Promethea fuisse antiquitas tradidit. Condendae in radicibus
montis urbi sedes electa est. VII milibus seniorum Macedonum et
praeterea militibus, quorum opera uti desisset, permissum in novam urbem
considere. Hanc quoque Alexandream incolae appellaverunt.
'... This also the inhabitants named Alexandria.'
He thus raises the possibility that some of Alexander's other cities and some later Alexandrias were named as such by their inhabitants.
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