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- ↑ Tacitus, Annales xi. 36, xv. 60.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 9.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 49.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 53.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 25.
- ↑ Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings, Discourses, i, 18, 19. Translation by Robert Dobbin, Penguin, 2008.
- ↑ Saint John Lateran.
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