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- ↑ Aelius Spartianus, Hadrian 9, 11, 15.
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- ↑ Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxviii. 30.
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- ↑ Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae vi. 6, xiii. 17.
- ↑ Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 1.
- ↑ Digesta seu Pandectae 1. tit. 15. s. 3. § 2.
- ↑ Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History lxvii. 22, lxxiv. 9.
- ↑ Julius Capitolinus, Pertinax 15.
- ↑ Aelius Spartianus, Septimius Severus 13.
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