ALEXANDRIUM, a Castle built by Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, upon the top of a Mountain near Corea1. We do not know distinctly where Corea was, but we know that it was the principal City of Judæa, on the side of Samaria, in the way to Jericho, towards the frontiers of Ephraim and Benjamin2. Gabinius demolished the Castle of Alexandrium3, but Herod rebuilt it4. The Princes of Alexander Jannæus’s family were for the most part buried there. Thither Herod order’d the bodies of his Sons Alexander and Aristobulus to be carried, who had been put to death by his directions at Sebaste, otherwise called Samaria5.
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