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- ↑ Gennadius de Marseille, De Viris Illustribus, 61, NPNF2-03. Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings | Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
- ↑ O. J. Kuhnmuench, Early Christian Latin Poets (Chicago, 1929), pp. 331-46 (at p. 331), https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001058147.
- ↑ Gennadius de Marseille, De Viris Illustribus, 61, NPNF2-03. Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings | Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
- ↑ Marta Cuenca-Godbert, 'L’épique re-cyclé', Acta Fabula, 8.2 (March–April 2007), http://www.fabula.org/revue/document2767.php.
