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- ↑ Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Cultura 1.5.4/5
- ↑ Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Cultura 1.5.4/5
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae 12.9.1
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 36.23.8.1
- ↑ Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Bellum Civile 8.51-53
- ↑ Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina 2.1.10.1
- ↑ Iustinianus, Digesta Iustiniani 4.2.21.pr.1