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- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 271
- ↑ Ronald Syme, "Missing Persons III", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte , 11 (1962), p. 151
- ↑ Papyrus Londinensis 1912; English translation in Robert K. Sherk, The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian (Cambridge: University Press, 1988), pp. 83-88
- ↑ CIL III, 14147 = ILS 8899
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis Historia , xxxvi.57
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| Preceded by Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro | Prefectus of Aegyptus 38–41 | Succeeded by Lucius Aemilius Rectus |