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- ↑ Géza Alföldy dates Libo's death to 163 (Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 240)
- ↑ M. Annius Flavius Libo (in Latin)
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani, A 648
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