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- ↑ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Localium 5.5. vol. xii. p. 892
- ↑ John Cramer, Anecdota graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecae regiae Parisiensis, vol. i. p. 394
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Aurelius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 443.