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- ↑ Aeneid , viii
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.45.1
- ↑ Solinus, Polyhistor, 1.1
- ↑ Aeneid 8.54
- ↑ Roman Antiquities, i. 31
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.32.1
