He was nicknamed Polyhistor ["Very Learned"] and [sc. also] Cornelius, because he was taken prisoner and sold to Cornelius Lentulus, for whom he became pedagogue;[1] he was then freed. He was in Rome at and during the Sullan period. He was burned to death in Laurentum, when his house was destroyed; when his wife Helen learned of what had happened she hanged herself. He was a grammarian, one of the pupils of Crates.[2] This man wrote innumerable books. Also On Rome (5 books), in which he says that there was a Hebrew woman Moso, and the Hebrew law is her composition.[3]