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- ↑ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 216, citing Plutarch, Cato Minor 43.4; and Cassius Dio 39.32.3 and 35.3–36.1.
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