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- ↑ CIL XI, 6334
- ↑ Historia Augusta , "Marcus Aurelius", ch. 2
- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1977), pp. 228f
- ↑ Fronto, Ad Amicos I.7; translated by C.R. Haines, The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto (London: Heineman, 1919), vol. 2 pp. 169f
- ↑ Fronto, Ad Amicos I.12; translated by Haines, Correspondence, vol. 2 pp. 171f
- ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 230
- ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 210
- ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 240
- ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 287f
- ↑ Dio, Roman History 72.11.1-2
- ↑ Fronto writes of their betrothal in Ad Amicos II.11; translated by Haines, Correspondence, vol. 1 p. 293
- ↑ Fronto, De nepote Amiss, II; Ad Verum Imp. II.9; both translated by Haines, Correspondence, vol. 2 pp. 223-234.