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- ↑ Also spelled Pompeius Paulinus
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- 1 2 3 Naturalis Historia , XXXIII.143
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- ↑ Annales XIII.54
- ↑ AE 1969/70, 443
- ↑ Syme, "Pliny the Procurator", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 73 (1969), pp. 206f
- ↑ Werner Eck, "Miscellanea prosopographica", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 42 (1981), pp. 229f
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales XV.18