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De Pizan, Christine. Epitre d'Othea a Hector [The Epistle of Othea to Hector]. c. 1399.
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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.
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Quoted in The War of Catiline, by Sallust
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