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- ↑ A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 16
- 1 2 A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 14
- ↑ E Kenney ed., The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (Cambridge 1983) p. 14
- ↑ A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 15
- ↑ Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars (Fontana 1968) p. 42
- ↑ A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 14–18
- ↑ A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 15-6
- ↑ A Cameron, Studies in Late Roman Literature and History (Bari 2016) p. 21
