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- ↑ Ralph W. Mathisen (1998). "Julius Nepos" DIR
- ↑ LATdict - An Online Latin Dictionary: "neptis
- ↑ MacGeorge, Penny (2002). Late Roman Warlords. OUP Oxford. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-19-153091-3.
- 1 2 Cameron, Ward-Perkins & Whitby 2000, pp. 148–49.