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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Philo (poet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- M. Philippson, Ezechiel des jüdischen Trauerspieldichters Auszug aus Egypten und Philo des Aelteren Jerusalem (Berlin, 1830).
