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- 1 2 3 Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, ii. p. 21 (ed. Bipontina).
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Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abronius Silo". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 3. - 1 2 AE 1983, 582.
- ↑ AE 2016, 1151, AE 2017, 1049.
