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- ↑ Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly , 24 (1974), pp. 291, 309
- ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 299
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