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- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 272
- ↑ Naphtali Lewis, "On Official Corruption in Roman Egypt: the Edict of Vergilius Capito", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 98 (1954), p. 153
- ↑ Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 37-38. English translation of P. Oxy. 37 in A. S. Hunt and C.C. Edgar, Select Papyri, II. Non-literary Papyri. Public Documents (London: Loeb, 1932), pp. 194f
- ↑ Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 39
- ↑ First published by Wilhelm Dittenberger, Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae 2 (Leipzig: Herzel, 1902). A more accurate transcription was published by J.H. Oliver as No. 1 in The Temple of Hibis in el Khargeh Oasis, part II: Greek Inscriptions (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938).
- ↑ Lewis, "On Official Corruption", pp. 153-158. Lewis also provides an English translation on p. 158