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- ↑ Jones, Martindale & Morris, p. 226.
- ↑ Probably Neratius was her brother and Vulcacius her half-brother, as "Gallus" is a cognomen of the Neratii (Jones, p. 198).
- ↑ Julian, Letter to the Athenians, 270D.
- ↑ Noel Emmanuel Lenski, The Cambridge companion to the Age of Constantine, Volume 13, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-52157-2, p. 107.
- ↑ Libanius xviii.10.
- ↑ Lenski, p. 97.
- ↑ Banchich, Thomas M., "Gallus Caesar (15 March 351 – 354 A.D.)", DIR (1997)