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- ↑ CIL XVI, 55
- ↑ Werner Eck & Peter Weiß, "Hadrische Konsuln. Neue Zeugnisse aus Militärdiplomen", Chiron , 32 (2002), p. 481
- ↑ AE 1998, 1004 = RMD-5, 387; AE 1999, 1183 = RMD-5, 386
- ↑ Based on the calculations of J.E.H. Spaul, "Governors of Tingitana", Antiquités africaines, 30 (1994), pp. 242f, 259
- ↑ CIL XVI, 101
- ↑ CIL XI, 6221
- ↑ CIL XVI, 183; AE 1988, 905 = RMD-3, 170
- ↑ AE 1986, 528
- ↑ CIL XVI, 121
- ↑ Bernard Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) , (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), pp. 556f
- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 252
- ↑ Unless otherwise noted, governors from 180 to 235 are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989)
- ↑ Anthony Birley, Septimus Severus, revised edition (New Haven: Yale University, 1989), p. 134
