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O acahdo é sensacional: o palimpsesto foi elaborado a partir de cinco livros, entre os quais transcrições de obras de Arquimedes e as únicas palavras escritas sobreviventes da obra de um político ateniense.
Leituras Artur 2007
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In one of his letters he banters his friend Trebatius for writing to him on a palimpsest, [Footnote: _In palimpsesto_.] and marvels what there could have been on the parchment which he wanted to erase.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Psalmenkommentar Theodors v.M. in Sitzungsberichteder kgl. preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1902), 334-46 MERCATI, Un palimpsesto Ambrosiano dei Salmi Esapli (Turin, 1896); cf. ASCOLI, Il codice erlandese dell 'Ambrosiana in Archivio glattologico itatiano,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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