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- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
- ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 298 n. 119
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 298f
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