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- ↑ Stewart Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta: A biographical essay (Chicago: University Press, 1968), p. 157
- ↑ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 157f
- ↑ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 167f
- ↑ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 161f
- ↑ Raymond Davis (translator), The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis), first edition (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1989), pp. 33f
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Wace, Henry; Piercy, William C., eds. (1911). "Eulalius, antipope". Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (3rd ed.). London: John Murray.
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