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- ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, xlv.27. Archived 2017-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus (15)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. pp. 91–92.