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- ↑ Speidel, "Scribonius Proculus: Curator Aedium Sacrarum et Operum Publicorum in Rom oder in Luna?" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 103 (1994), pp. 209–214
- ↑ Dio Cassius, Romaike Historia, LIX.26.2; Tacitus, Histories , IV.41
- ↑ Tacitus, Annales , XIII.48
- ↑ CIL XI, 1340
- ↑ AE 1978, 658 = AE 1989, 628
- ↑ AE 1969/70, 443