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- ↑ Smith, William (1870), "Africanus, Julius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston, p. 56, archived from the original on 2014-12-09
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- ↑ Quintilian, x. 1. § 118, xii. 10. § 11, comp. viii. 5. § 15
- ↑ Dial. de Orat. 15
- ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae vii. 6
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