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A33324 The life and death of Pompey the Great with all his glorious victories and triumphs : as also the Life and death of Artaxerxes Mnemon, one of the great Persian emperours / by Sa. Clarke, sometime pastor in St. Bennet Finck London. Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1665 (1665) Wing C4531; ESTC R43101 46,759 67

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