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- ↑ Eileen Holland, Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondences: A Ritual Handbook, 2005, Career Press, 307 pages ISBN 1-56414-831-9.
- ↑ Paul Erdkamp, A Companion to the Roman Army, 2007, Blackwell Publishing, 600 pages ISBN 1-4051-2153-X
- ↑ "The epigraphy of Cilurnum" Archived 2007-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
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