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- ↑ Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization by Ioana A Oltean, 2007, page 47, "Dicomes of the Getians"
- ↑ Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Antony, Chapter 63.4 Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Antony, Bernadotte Perrin, Ed., London, 1920
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