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- ↑ Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy (1986), pg. 286
- ↑ Alexander, Michael C., Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 BC to 50 BC (1990), pg. 296
- ↑ Broughton, pg. 321
- ↑ Broughton, pg. 364
- ↑ Broughton, pg. 390