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- ↑ Ronald Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 44, 49, 393
- ↑ Cassius Dio, liv.5; Florus, iv.12
- 1 2 3 Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 408
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 407
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 132, 371
- 1 2 Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 377
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales , iv.68, vi.9, xi.29; Suetonius, "Life of Claudius", 29, 37; Cassius Dio, lx.14, 15
- ↑ Suetonius, "Life of Galba", 9
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 69 to 139 are taken from Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron , 12 (1982), pp. 281-362; 13 (1983), pp. 147-237
- ↑ Dates for Fulvus & the next 2 are taken from Syme, "Curtailed Tenures of Consular Legates", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 59 (1985), p. 270
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 145 (Priscianus) to 180 are taken from Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), pp. 229f
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 180 to 235 are taken from Paul Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 247-250
- ↑ CIL II, 4115
