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- ↑ Plutarch's Life of Lucullus (Dryden transl.), paragraph 25; a slightly different account (the messenger was hanged) is in Appian's Mithradatic Wars, paragraph 84
- ↑ Sophocles (1891). "Line 277". The Antigone of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge University Press. At the Perseus Project.
- ↑ Act I, scene 1, lines 95-103; "Thou shakest thy head and hold'st it fear or sin to speak a truth. ... Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, remember'd tolling a departed friend."
- ↑ II, 5; cf. I, 2 : "The nature of bad news infects the teller."
- ↑ "Top town crier to be crowned as Hebden Bridge hits 500". BBC. 2010-08-20.
- ↑ Bruce W. Sanford, Don't Shoot the Messenger (2001) p. 10
- ↑ Mike Robson/Ciaran Beary, Facilitating (1995) p. 135
- ↑ Barbar Ehrenreich, Smile or Die (London 2009) p. 188-9
- ↑ "Julian Assange: 'Don't Shoot the Messenger'". The Independent . London. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
