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- ↑ Chaumont, Armenia between Rome and Iran I: the advent of Augustus to the accession of Diocletian, p.89
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals, 6.33
- ↑ Grousset, History of Armenia from its origins to 1071, p.105
- ↑ Chaumont, Armenia between Rome and Iran I: the advent of Augustus to the accession of Diocletian, p.89
- ↑ Grousset, History of Armenia from its origins to 1071, p.106
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals, 6.33-35
- ↑ Chaumont, Armenia between Rome and Iran I: the advent of Augustus to the accession of Diocletian, p.90