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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Gesine Manuwald (9 June 2011). Roman Republican Theatre. Cambridge University Press. pp. 263–. ISBN 978-1-139-49974-3.
- ↑ Quintilian, x. 1. § 100
- ↑ Horace, Epodes ii.1.57
- ↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia vi.1
- ↑ Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum i.3
- ↑ Cicero, Brutus 45
- ↑ Velleius Paterculus, i.17, ii.9
- ↑ Gellius, xiii.8
- ↑ Suetonius, Nero 11
- ↑ Ausonius, Epigr. 71
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- ↑ Cf. Fontaine, Michael (2009) Funny Words in Plautine Comedy (Oxford), p. 224
- ↑ P.G.M. Brown, "Afranius, Lucius (1)", in The Oxford Classical Dictionary: "his plays included pederastic themes".
- ↑ Welsh, Jarrett T. (2010). "Quintilian's Judgement of Afranius". The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 1 (May 2010), pp. 118-126.)
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