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Aside from the clear indication that his work was known to poets like Callimachus and Theocritus who worked at Alexandria, it has never been established with any certainty that Asclepiades visited the city. Recently, A. Cameron has sought to confirm his sojourn there by reference to several epigrams ...Clack 1999, p. 3
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