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- ↑ Plutarch, Timoleon 12
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, xiv. 37
- ↑ Aelian, Hist. Anim. xi. 20
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Adranus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston, p. 20, archived from the original on 2005-12-18, retrieved 2007-10-15
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