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- ↑ "Herodotus, The Histories 4.120.2, 4.128.1, (English)". uchicago. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Scopasis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .
