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- ↑ Abrantes 2018
- 1 2 Johannes Quastern (ed.), Patrology: Volume II, RCL, pp. 371–372
- 1 2 Michael von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius, Leiden: Brill, 1997, p. 1578
- 1 2 3 Angelo Di Berardino (ed.), Patrology: Volume IV – The Golden Age of Latin Patristic Literature, RCL, pp. 315–316
- ↑ M. Bayless 1997, pp. 22–24
- 1 2 M. Bayless 1997, p. 10
- ↑ M. Bayless 1997, pp. 21–23
- ↑ M. Bayless 1997, pp. 215–216
- ↑ (in German) Christine Modesto, Studien zur Cena Cypriani und zu deren Rezeption, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1992, p. 11
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