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- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Almo". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 132.
- ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 20
- ↑ comp. Varro De lingua latina v. 71, ed. Müller
- ↑ Seyffert, Oskar (1895). Nettleship, Henry (ed.). A Dictionary of Classical Antiquity: Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art. W. Glaisher. p. 373.
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