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- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 469
- ↑ Ronald Syme, "The Jurist Neratius Priscus", Hermes, 85 (1957), p. 492
- ↑ CIL IX, 1455
- ↑ Pliny, Epistulae, III.3