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- ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 84
- ↑ Livy xxxiii. 42, xxxiv. 42, 43, 53
- ↑ Livy, xxxv. 10, 20, 22, 40, xxxvi. 37
- ↑ Livy, xxxvii. 39
- ↑ Plutarch, Apophth. Rom. Cn. Domit.
- ↑ Livy, xxxv. 21
- ↑ Valerius Maximus, i. 6. § 5, who falsely says, Bello Punico secundo
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