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REFERENCES
  1. John 5.43.

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  2. Lucan, Pharsalia x.21 (misquoted).

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  3. Tacitus, Annals i.3.

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  4. Virgil, Eclogues viii.80.

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  5. By Diogenes Laertius.

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  6. Genesis 1.20.

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  7. Genesis 1.24.

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  8. Vita brevis, ars longa: Latin translation of Hippocrates, Aphorisms i.1.

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  9. Ecclesiastes 4.11 (in the English Bible). In fact the full quotation begins ‘No-one can find out the work that. . . .’.

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  10. e.g. Isaiah 6.3, Revelations 4.8.

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  11. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations vi.26.

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  12. Proverbs 4.12.

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  13. Virgil, Eclogues vii.45.

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  14. In fact De re metallica (Basle, 1555).

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  15. Horace, Odes ii.10.

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  16. As reported by Sextus Empiricus in Against the Logicians, i.131ff.

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