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- ↑ Historia Augusta, Life of Hadrian 11.3
- ↑ Pliny, Epistulae i. 15.
- ↑ Pliny, Epistulae ii. 9
- ↑ Johannes Lydus De Magistratibus 2.6.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology" - Smith Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine