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- ↑ Cicero, ad Qu. Fr. i. 1. § 3.
- ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum x. 15.
- ↑ Hirt. Bell. Afr. 2, 34
- ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares xiii. 78, 79
- ↑ Smith, William (1867). "A. Allienus (2)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 132.
- ↑ Appian, Civil Wars iii. 78, iv. 59
- ↑ Cicero, Philippicae xi. 12, 13
- ↑ Cassius, ap. Cic. ad Fam. xii. 11, 12
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "A. Allienus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .