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- ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita iii. 31
- ↑ Smith, William (1867). "L. Alienus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 131.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, x. 48-9
- ↑ Ogilvie, Robert Maxwell (1965). A Commentary on Livy: Books 1-5. Clarendon Press. p. 448.
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