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- ↑ Monceaux (1905), p. 389, quoted by Bruce.
- ↑ Bruce (1949), p. 138.
- ↑ Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter, Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 124 n. 3; ISBN 9780199653782.
