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Oppianus. Poetae alieuticon, sive de piscibus, libri quinq e graeco traducti ad
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Oppiani Poetae
Cilicis de Venatione lib. IV., de Piscatu lib. V., cum interpretatione latina, comment. et indice rerum......studio et opera Conradi Rittershusii, Lugduni Bat.
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