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- ↑ Cicero In Verrem iii. 1. 8, 42, v. 7; Zumpt, ad loc.; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Karl Julius Sillig, ad loc.
- ↑ Ptol. iii. 4. § 12.
- ↑ Cluver. Sicil. p. 356; Tommaso Fazello de Reb. Sic. iv. 2, p. 217; Amico, Not. ad Fazell. pp. 417, 447; Richard Hoare, Classical Tour, vol. ii. p. 301.
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