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- ↑ Robin Waterfield, Plutarch: Roman Lives (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 481.
- ↑ Plutarch, Life of Sulla 31; Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland, Ancient Rome: From the Early Republic to the Assassination of Julius Caesar (Routledge, 2005), pp. 524–525.
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