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- ↑ Cicero, Ad Atticus vii. 2, xiii. 25, xv. 1. d 2
- ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alexion". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
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