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- ↑ Danckaert, Lieven (2017). The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780198759522.
- ↑ A. Bouvet, La Guerre d'Afrique, Les Belles-Lettres 1949: introduction, p.xix.
- ↑ Caesar, Gaius Julius (2012-12-12). The Gallic Wars. Winged Hussar Publishing. ISBN 9781620180730.
- ↑ Caesar Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars, with an English translation by A.G. Way, M.A., The Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1955, p.141.
