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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Mandouze, André; La Bonnardière, Anne-Marie; Lacroix, Claude-Hélène; Lancel, Serge; Marrou, Henri-Irénée; Munier, Charles; Paoli-Lafaye, Élisabeth; Pellistrandi, Stan-Michel; Pietri, Charles (1982). "Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire, 1. Prososopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533)". Études d'Antiquités Africaines. 2 (1). Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: 68.
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- ↑ Haines-Eitzen, Kim. (2012). The gendered palimpsest : women, writing, and representation in early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-19-517129-7. OCLC 700735523.
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