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- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
- ↑ CIL VI, 1266; Borghesi, Œuvres complètes de Bartolomeo Borghesi (1860), III p. 343
- ↑ Rudolf Hanslik, "Petronius 22", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1937) Vol. 19,1, Col. 1199
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