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- Ancient sources: Cicero, De Am. 19 (69), Tusculan Disputations iv.17, In Verr. ii.13, 15; Diodorus Siculus xxxiv.I, 20; Velleius Paterculus ii.7.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rupilius, Publius". Encyclopædia Britannica . 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 856.
