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- ↑ Oost, S.I (1968), Galla Placidia, University of Chicago Press., page 170-182
- ↑ Stewart Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta (Chicago: University Press, 1968), pp. 172f.
- 1 2 Matthews, Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364 - 425 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), p. 379
- ↑ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 178f. Oost follows Ernst Stein's identification of the consul of 424 with the Patrician; see p. 179 n. 35 for the bibliography of the discussion.
- ↑ Matthews, Western Aristocracies, p. 380; Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 183 - 189
- 1 2 Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, p. 190
- ↑ Matthews, Western Aristocracies, p.381