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| Title | A History of Classical Scholarship ... Volume 3 of A History of Classical Scholarship, John Edwin Sandys |
| Author | John Edwin Sandys |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | At the University Press, 1908 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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