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- ↑ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly , 31 (1981), pp. 189, 215
- 1 2 Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) p. 232
- ↑ Tacitus, Histories 2.65
- ↑ Tacitus, Agricola 7
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| Preceded by Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus, and Lucius Asinius Pollio Verrucosus as suffect consuls | Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 81 with Gaius Julius Juvenalis | Succeeded by Lucius Julius Vettius Paullus, and Titus Junius Montanus as suffect consuls |