Agamemnon (Zeus)

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  2. Stobaeus, Sermones 42
  3. Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
  4. Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
  5. Athenagoras of Athens (c. 177 AD), Embassy to the Christians §1
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