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- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 943
- ↑ "Obba" Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine Lewis and Short
- 1 2 Sophrone Pétridès, "Obba" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911)
- ↑ Werner Huß (Bamberg), "Abba" in Brill's New Pauly
- ↑ Polybius, Histories, 14,6,12; 7,5
- ↑ Livy, The History of Rome, 30.7