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- ↑ Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly , 24 (1974), p. 290, 309
- ↑ Ginsburg, "Nero's Consular Policy", American Journal of ancient History, 6 (1981), pp. 51-68
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales , VI.30; Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 299
- ↑ CIL VI, 1392
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| Preceded by Publius Palfurius, and Lucius Annaeus Seneca as suffect consuls | Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 55 with Titus Curtilius Mancia | Succeeded by Quintus Volusius Saturninus, and Publius Cornelius (Lentulus?) Scipio as ordinary consuls |