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- ↑ Plutarch, "The Life of Marius", 14.
- ↑ Cicero, Pro Milone, 4.
- ↑ Scholia Bobiensia, Pro Milone, p. 279 (ed. Orelli).
- ↑ Valerius Maximus, vi. 1. § 12.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xi. 31, 33, xii. 42.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, lxviii. 8, 22, 30, 32, lxix. 2.
- ↑ Themistius, Orationes, xvi. p. 205 (ed. Petavius).
- ↑ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, iv. 2, and note of Valesius.
- ↑ Spartianus, "The Life of Hadrian", 5, 7.
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, xxix. 5.