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- ↑ Aulus Gellius 2.24.10; Macrobius 3.17.7; T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 7.
- ↑ Cicero, De Oratore 2.274; Valerius Maximus 2.9.5; Broughton, MRR1, pp. 6–7.
