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- ↑ Cassius Dio, xlv. 17.
- 1 2 Sumner, "Lex Annalis", p. 255.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, i. 44.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 558 ("C. Caetronius").
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, xxix. 5.
- ↑ RE: Caetronius 1
- ↑ CIL XII, 112.
- ↑ PIR, C. 170.
- ↑ PIR2 C. 217.
- ↑ RE: Caetronius 2
- ↑ Tacitus, Historiae, iv. 50.
- ↑ PIR, C. 171.
- ↑ PIR2 C. 218.
- ↑ RE: Caetronius 3