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| Title | Elegiae Macmillan's school class books |
| Author | Sextus Propertius |
| Editor | John Percival Postgate |
| Contributor | John Percival Postgate |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1881 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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