| Title of Work | Date | Passage and list contents* |
| Song of Songs | 10th – 4th c. BCE | 4.13-14, Spices and perfumes |
| Homer, Iliad | 9th/8th c. BCE | Catalogue of ships, 2.494-759 – of Trojans, 2.815-77 |
| Hesiod, Theogony | 8th c. BCE | Catalogue of Olympic gods, of 11-20 – of Nyktides, 211-25 – of Nereids, 243-62 – of Rivers, 337-45 – of Okeanids, 349-416 |
| Vergil, Aeneid | 19 CE | Underworld description, 6,264-301 List of Italic peoples, 7.641-817 – of Etruscans, 10.163-214 |
| Ovid, Metamorphosis | 8 BCE | List of trees, 10.86-105 – of dogs, 1.206-25 |
| Erasmus, De copia | 1512 | Handbook of rhetoric |
| Shakespeare, Macbeth | 1606 | Ingredients for a toxic brew, IV.1.4-37 |
| Robert Herrick, Hesperides | 1648 | “The Argument of His Book“ |
| Robert Lewis Stevenson, Treasure Island | 1813 | Travels of Captain Flint in “The Voyage” |
| Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior | 1976 | List of sixes, p. 92 |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me | 2015 | The love poured in to Prince Jones, pp. 81-82 |
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