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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Atta, Titus Quinctius". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 877–878. Endnotes:
- Aulus Gellius vii. 9
- Fragments in Neukirch, De fabula togata 18 manorum (1833)
- Otto Ribbeck, Comicorum Latinorum reliquiae (1855).
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