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- ↑ Elder, Edward (1867), "Timasitheus (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 3, Boston, pp. 1135–1136
- ↑ Herodotus, v. 72.
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Greece, vi. 8.
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