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- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 271
- ↑ Joseph Modrzejewski (1997). The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian. Princeton University Press. pp. 165f. ISBN 0-691-01575-9.
- 1 2 Richard James Horatio Gottheil and Samuel Krauss, "Flaccus", The Jewish Encyclopedia ; New York: Funk and Wagnall's, 1906.
- ↑ Philo of Alexandria, Flaccus, ch. VIII (53-57)
- ↑ Philo, Flaccus , Chapters 6 - 9 (43, 53-56, 62, 66, 68, 71-72); translation by Charles Duke Yonge, 1855.
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