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- ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 267
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 267
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales III.31
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 261
- ↑ AE 1927, 172
- ↑ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 172