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O'Hara, James (1989). "Messapus, Cycnus, and the Alphabetical Order of Vergil's Catalogue of Italian Heroes". Phoenix. 43 (1): 35–38. doi:10.2307/1088539. JSTOR1088539.
Nathan's Arukh may not have been the first alphabetical Talmudic dictionary, but it achieved surpassing popularity and remains in use today. One possible antecedent is the lost Alpha-Beta of Machir ben Yehuda [he].