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- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, iv. 9.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 821 ("Appius Junius Silanus").
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, iv. 68, vi. 9, xi. 29.
- ↑ Suetonius, "The Life of Claudius", 29, 37.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, lx. 14, 15.
- ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 194 ff.
- ↑ Ginsburg, "Nero's Consular Policy", American Journal of Ancient History 6 (1981), p. 52