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- ↑ Platner, Samuel Ball. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. London: Oxford UP, 1929. Print.
- ↑ William Warde Fowler, The Religious Experience of the Roman People (London, 1922), p. 209.
- ↑ Auguraculum on the Quirinal: Varro, Lingua Latina, Book V
- ↑ "An Elementary Manual of Roman Antiquities", (Griffin, 1859, from Harvard University), p. 64.
- ↑ John Scheid, An Introduction to Roman Religion (Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 113–114; Jerzy Linderski, "The Augural Law", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.16 (1986), pp. 2164–2288, especially p. 2174 on the military auguraculum.
