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- ↑ Livy, Perochiae, 79.
- ↑ Granius Licinianus, 23, 25.
- ↑ Appian, Bellum Civile, i. 295.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 46, 50 (and notes 2, 3, 9).
- ↑ Horace, Satirae, ii. 1, 24 ff.
- ↑ CIL VI, 22933.
- ↑ Suetonius, "The Life of Caligula", 25, 33, 38, 59.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, lix. 23, 28, 29.
- ↑ Josephus, Antiquitates Judaïcae, xix. 2. § 4.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 558 ("Caesonia").
- ↑ CIL VIII, 5618.
- ↑ CIL XVI, 3.