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- ↑ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
- 1 2 Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita , ii. 51.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita , ii. 50-51.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Gaius Horatius Pulvillus, and Titus Menenius Lanatus | Consul of the Roman Republic 476 BC with Spurius Servilius Priscus Structus | Succeeded by Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Gaius Nautius Rutilus |