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A54420 The Syracusan tyrant, or, The life of Agathocles with some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers.; Syracusan tyrant Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673. 1661 (1661) Wing P1608; ESTC R16938 130,191 299

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