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References
- ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 10.6
- ↑ Livy Ab Urbe Condita 10.23
- ↑ Dyer, Thomas Henry (1868), The History of the Kings of Rome, Bell and Daldy, p. 46, retrieved 2 December 2016