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- ↑ Aurel. Vict., de Caes 89
- ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Aelianus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , 1, Boston, p. 28, archived from the original on 2011-06-05, retrieved 2007-10-20
- ↑ Gibbon, Edward. A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. https://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap13.htm.<Accessed Oct 5, 2021>
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