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- ↑ Tacitus, Annales 4.61
- ↑ Smith, William (1867). "Agrippa, M. Asinius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 77.
- ↑ Syme, Ronald (1986). The Augustan Aristocracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 145f. ISBN 0-19-814731-7.
- ↑ von Rohden, "Asinius 18", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1896), Band II.2, col. 1588
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agrippa, M. Asinius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 77.
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