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- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita iv. 3, v. 13.
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- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica xi. 68.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia xi. 46.
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Republica ii. 31.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita iii. 35, 41, 58.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia x. 58, xi. 23, 46.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita v. 13.
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica xiv. 54.
- ↑ Fasti Capitolini .
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- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica xvii. 28.
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares ix. 21.
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