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- ↑ Sueton, Augustus, 30.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 11,35.
- ↑ Cassius Dio 61, 6.
- ↑ Miriam T. Griffin: Nero – the End of a Dynasty. Routledge, p. 79.
- ↑ Anthony A. Barrett: Agrippina: Mother of Nero. Batsford, 1996, Appendix VIII: The Patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54-9, p. 241.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 13,13.
- ↑ Plinius, Naturalis historia 22,96.
- ↑ Seneca, Ad Lucilium 63,14.