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- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.7.9
- ↑ Livy 33, 24, 7.
- ↑ Livy 33, 35 and 33, 39. Polybius 18, 48, 3 and 18, 50, 3.
- ↑ Livy 34, 59; 35, 13–15; 35, 23; 35, 39, 4–8.