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- ↑ Livy, iv. 61
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xiv. 19. 1
- ↑ Livy, v. 10
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, xiv. 44. 1
- ↑ Livy, v. 24
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus,' xiv. 94. 1
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- ↑ Livy, v. 35, 36, 41
- ↑ Plutarch Camillus 17
- ↑ Drummond, Andrew (1996), "Fabius Ambustus, Quintus", in Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Anthony (eds.), Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-521693-8, OCLC 45857759
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Ambustus (3)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 141.