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- ↑ "Asinius (18)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft , II,2 (1896), col. 1588
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals , XIV.40
- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 467
- ↑ "Asinius (19)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, II.2 (1896), col. 1588
- ↑ "Asinius (19)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, S.1 (1903), col. 152
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