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- ↑ R. H. Rodgers, "Curatores Aquarum", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 86 (1982), p. 172
- 1 2 Syme, "The Marriage of Rubellius Blandus", American Journal of Philology , 103 (1982), pp. 67f