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Jones, op. cit. (ref. 7), 6; for a discussion of some technical aspects of Pliny's astronomy with reference to templates, cf.JonesA., “Pliny on planetary cycles”, Phoenix, xlv (1991), 148–61, espec. pp. 157f.
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