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- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 269
- ↑ AE 1905, 39 = ILS 9370
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 12.15, 21
- ↑ CIL III, 321 = ILS 5883
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William (1870). "Aquila, Gaius Julius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 252.