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- ↑ Giuseppe Camodeca, "Novità sui fasti consolari delle tavolette cerate della Campania", Publications de l'École française de Rome, 143 (1991), pp. 57–62
- ↑ Terence Bruce Mitford, The Inscriptions of Kourion (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971), inscription 107; pp. 204-207
- ↑ Tacitus, Histories , I.76
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| Preceded by Lucius Flavius Fimbria, and Gaius Atilius Barbarus as suffect consuls | Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 71 with Gnaeus Pompeius Collega | Succeeded by Imp. Caesar Vespasianus Augustus IV, and Titus Caesar Vespasianus II as ordinary consuls |