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- ↑ Ramsay, William (1867), "Juventinus Albius Ovidius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 2, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 691
- ↑ Gottfried Bernhardy, Grundriss der Röm. Litt. p. 135.
- ↑ Pieter Burman the Younger, Anthol. Lat. v. 143, or n. 233, ed. Meyer
- ↑ Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Minores, vol. vii. p. 178 and: p. 279.
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