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- ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 371
- ↑ Werner Eck and Peter Weiß, = "Die Sonderregelungen für Soldatenkinder seit Antoninus Pius. Ein niederpannonisches Militärdiplom vom 11. Aug. 146"], Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 135, 2001, pp. 195-208 JSTOR 20190855
- ↑ AE 2001, 1705 = RMD-5, 404; CIL XVI, 110
- ↑ CIL IX, 2438
- ↑ Birley, Marcus Aurelius: A Biography, p. 171