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Smith, William (1870). "Macrinus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . 2. p. 886. - ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae ii. 7, iii. 4, vii. 6, 10, viii. 17, ix. 4
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William (1870). "Macrinus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . 2. p. 886.
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