This list is compiled from the article by Ernst Maass "Eunouchos and Related Terms" mentioned in the notes to the Introduction. It is provided here to assist scholars who wish to do research on eunuchs in the ancient world.

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Ammianus Marcellinus XIV 6.17; XVI 7.4-14; XVIII 4.2-5; XXI 16.16; XXVII 12.5; XXX 4.2; XXX 22; XXXI 22
Apollonius of Tyana I 42
Apuleius, de mundi, 17
Apuleius, metamorphosis, VIII 28. 
Aristotle, de generatione animalium, I 3d; IV 1d
Aristotle, historia animalium, V 3e; IX 50
Athanasius, apologia contra Arianos 33, 57, 89.
Augustine De civitas dei VII 26
Babrios 54
Cassius Dio L 5; LXVII 2.3; LXXVI 14.4ff; LXXVII 17,2
Chrysostomos, homily 84 on Matthew
Cicero, de oratione, 232.
Claudian in Eutropium I 47ff; I 61; I 98; I 106-110; I 171; I 187-190; I 233; I 313; I 332ff; I 339ff; I 419; I 463; I 469; II 22; II 67;
Codex Theodosii IX 18.
Codex Justiniani IV 42.1-2; V 62.1; VI 22.5; VI 43.3; VII 7.1.5b; XII 5.4
Concilia Nicetorum I can 1.
Concilia Vaison 442 can 9.
Constantine Manasse VI 23,375
Quintus Curtius III 3.23; VI 53; X 1.25
de Rossi Inscriptiones Christianorum I 1,1121.
Deuteronomy 23:1.
Digesta IX 2.27-28; XXI 1.6-7; XXIII 3.39.1; XXVII 1.15; XXXIX 4.16.7;XLVIII 3.4; XLVIII 8.4-5; L 16.128
Diogenian II 78
Eusebius historia ecclesiae VIII 6.2; XVIII 4.4
Eustathios on Iliad 1250, 30 and Odyssey 1643, 16
Gregory of Nazianzos orationes XXXVII
Gregory of Nazianzos orationes XLIII 47
Heliodorus of Emesa, aethiopica, VIII 17.4; IX 25.5
Herodotus I 117. 
Herodotus III 48-49.
Herodotus III 78.
Herodotus III 92.
Herodotus VI 32.
Herodotus VIII 104-106 
Hesiod Erga 742
Hesiod Frag 166?
Hesiod Frag 166?
Hesychius Miles FHG IV 171, 47.
Jerome, epistolae CVII 11.
Jerome, epistolae CXXX 13.
Jerome, epistolae XXII 27.
Jerome, in Matth III 19.
Hippocrates Peri aeron 22.
Hippolytos V 8.
Historiae augustae XVIII 23,4-7.
Historiae augustae XVIII 34,3.
Historiae augustae XVIII 66,3.
Historiae augustae XX 23,7.
Historiae augustae XX 24,3ff.
Historiae augustae XX 25,2.
Historiae augustae XXVI 49,8.
Horace carminum liber I 37,9.
Horace epodon liber IX 13ff.
Institutiones Justiniani I 11, 9.
Isaiah 56:3-5.
Juvenal I 22.
Juvenal VI 366.
Juvenal VI 366ff.
Juvenal X 306.
Juvenal XIV 47.
Juvenal XIV 91.
Josephus Antiquities of the Jews IV 8, 40.
Josephus Antiquities of the Jews XV 7,4.
Josephus Antiquities of the Jews XVI 8,1.
Justin Apologia I 29
Novellae Constitutiones Justiniani, 142.
Lactantius de mortibus persecutorum 14.
Libanius epitaphios I 565
Libanius epitaphios XVIII 130 (II p 291 F).
Libanius epitaphios XVIII 130 (II p 291 F).
Libanius epitaphios XVIII 130 (II p 291 F)
Livy XXXV 15,4
Lucian adversus indoctum 19
Lucian amores 21.
Lucian eunuchus
Martial II 60,3f.
Martial II 82,15.
Martial III 58,30.
Martial III 82,15.
Martial III 91.
Martial IX 20,8.
Martial IX 6,4. 
Martial IX 8,5f.
Martial V 40,1.
Martial V 41.
Martial VI 2.
Martial VI 39,21
Martial VI 67.
Martial VIII 44,15.
Martial X 91.
Martial XI 81,1
Minucius Felix, octavius, 23,4
Ovid amores II 2
Ovid met IV 386.
Petronius satyricon 27.
Philostratus Heroicus 8,12
Philostratus Letter 15
Plato Comicus Laios (fr 64 Ch II p 636 mid).
Pliny VII 129.
Pliny XI 263.
Pliny XII 12.
Pliny XIII 4.
Pliny XIX 39,127.
Pliny XXXI 5.
Plutarch, marc antony 60.
Plutarch, demetrios 25
Adamantios, physiognomy 3
Prudentius Peristeph X 196 ff.
Seneca, ben V 16,6.
Seneca de beneficiis V 16,6.
Seneca epistolae morales CXIV 6.
Seneca epistolae morales IV 7.
Seneca epistolae morales LXVI 53.
Seneca de ira I 21.
Seneca De ira I 21.
Sirach 20:4. 
Sirach 30:20.
Socrates Scholasticus, II 2.
Sophocles Troilos Fr 721.
Sozomen III 18.
Statius achilleid II 363.
Statius silvae IV 3,14f.
Suetonius Claudius 28.
Suetonius Domitian 7.
Suetonius Nero 28.
Suetonius Tiberius 7.
Suetonius Titus 7.
Tacitus annales XII 66.
Tacitus annales XII 66.
Tacitus annales XIV 39.
Tacitus annales XIV 39.
Tacitus annales XIV 59.
Tacitus annales XIV 59.
Tacitus historiae II 71.
Tacitus historiae II 71.
Tacitus historiae III 40.
Tacitus historiae III 40.
Terence. eunuchus
Theodoret historia ecclesiae II 13.
Xenophon cyropedia VII 5,58ff.