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- ↑ Ronald Syme, "The Proconsuls of Asia under Antoninus Pius", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 51 (1983), p. 280; Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 323
- ↑ A New Eusebius, ed. J. Stevenson and W.H.C. Frend (London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1987), p. 29; Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 214f