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- ↑ The 4th Asclepiad, according to Page (1895); the 5th Asclepiad, according to Raven (1965); the 3rd Asclepiad, according to Nisbet and Hubbard (1970).
- 1 2 Bennett 1901, p. 8.
- 1 2 Moore 1902, p. 71.
- ↑ Philologus 60, 1901, 2.
- ↑ anon. Anth. Pal. 5.11.
- ↑ Nisbet & Hubbard (1970), pp. 79–80.
- ↑ Hoppin (1984), p. 56.
- ↑ Shorey; Laing 1911, p. 160.
