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References
- ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Ahenobarbus (6), Gnaeus Domitius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 85
- ↑ Livy, Epit. 89
- ↑ Plutarch, Pompey 10, 12
- ↑ Joannes Zonaras, x. 2
- ↑ Orosius, v. 21
- ↑ Valerius Maximus, vi. 2. § 8
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