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- ↑ Ronald Syme, "The Historian Servilius Nonianus", Hermes, 92. Bd (1964), p. 410
- 1 2 Syme, "Servilius Nonianus", p. 409
- ↑ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, XXXVII.81
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals , II.48
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals, III.22
- ↑ Syme, "Servilius Nonianus", p. 412
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| Preceded by P. Cornelius Lentulus Scipio T. Quinctius Crispinus Valerianus as suffecti | Roman consul January–June AD 3 with Lucius Aelius Lamia | Succeeded by Sex. Aelius Catus Gaius Sentius Saturninus as suffecti |