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- ↑ Tacitus, Annales xv. 45, xvi. 23
- ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Acratus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 14
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