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- ↑ Didascaliae Terentianae
- ↑ Cicero, de Senectute 48
- ↑ Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 20
- ↑ Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Epistles i. 25, x. 2
- 1 2 Marshall, C.W. (2006). The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN 0-521-86161-6.
- 1 2 Sharrock, Alison (2009). Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence. New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 65–66, 74–75. ISBN 978-0-521-76181-9.
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