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- ↑ Werner Eck, Peter Weiß, "Hadrianische Konsuln. Neue Zeugnisse aus Militärdiplomen", Chiron , 32 (2002), p. 482
- ↑ CIL V, 3401
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, pp. 67, 72.
- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 89 n. 60
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