Diodorus of Tyre

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  1. Cicero, de Oratore, i. 11, Tusculanae Disputationes, v. 30, De Finibus, ii. 6, 11, iv. 18, v. 5, 8, 25, Academica, ii. 42; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i., ii.

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