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Fabius Dorsuo was a Roman name used by men of the gens Fabia , including:

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References

  1. ↑ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 96.
  2. ↑ Broughton, MRR1, pp. 131, 136, 141.
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