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- ↑ Walter Burkert, Kleine Schriften (Göttingen 2001, multi-volume series in continuing publication).
- ↑ Friedrich Solmsen, Kleine Schriften, 3 vols. (Hildesheim 1968–1982).
- ↑ Ernst A. Ebbinghaus, Gotica: kleine Schriften zur gotischen Philologie, edited by Piergiuseppe Scardigli and Wolfgang Meid (Innsbrück: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbrück, 2003). ISBN 3851246896