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- ↑ Bohdan Chernyukh, review of Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, in Censurae Librorum, pp. 128-129.
- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, M.G.L. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook. Review by Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.03.
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