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- 1 2 Antony Kamm, The Romans, An Introduction, p. 13.
- ↑ T.P. Wiseman says that it was not his son, but Marcius Rutilus himself who was consul in 310; see "Satyrs in Rome?" Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988), p. 4.
- ↑ Fergus Millar, The Roman Republic and Augustan Revolution