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- ↑ Dio, Roman History, Book 55, ch 27.
- ↑ Peter Michael Swan, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, p. 184.
- ↑ Oxford commentary to Suetonius' Life of the Divus Augustus, 2014, p164.
- ↑ Peter Michael Swan,The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, p. 184.
- ↑ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, p.516
- ↑ Oxford commentary to Suetonius' Life of the Divus Augustus, 2014, p164.
- ↑ Peter Michael Swan,The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, p. 184.
- ↑ R.A Birch, Classical Quarterly, Vol31, 1981.