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- ↑ Pol. iii. 88; Liv. xxii. 9, xxvii. 43; Plin. iii. 13. s. 18; Ptol. iii. 1. § 58.
- ↑ Blondi Flavii, Italia Illustrata, p. 394.
- ↑ Ptol. l. c.
- ↑ "Ager Praetutianus Palmensisque", Plin. l. c..
- ↑ Plin. xiv. 6. s. 8; Dioscor. v. 19; Silius Italicus xv. 568.
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