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Where was Euclid born?

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Euclid is known almost entirely through his mathematical works and a handful of later, largely legendary anecdotes; no ancient source states where he was born, and even his activity at Alexandria is inferred from the school he founded there rather than from a personal record.

What would resolve this A Hellenistic record naming his origin, which no papyrus or inscription recovered so far supplies.
OpenHistory of Hellenistic mathematics; classical scholarship; papyrologyDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition
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Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2012View the Source
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