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- ↑ Livy, xxxix. 6.
- ↑ Livy, xliii. 14.
- ↑ Livy, xxxix. 14.
- ↑ CIL I2 2.581.
- ↑ Livy, xxxix. 20.
- ↑ Lorenzo Marcuccetti, Saltus Marcius. La sconfitta di Roma contro la Nazione Ligure-Apuana, Petrartedizioni, Lucca 2002.
- ↑ Livy, xxxviii. 35.
- ↑ Livy, xxxix. 48.
- ↑ Livy, xl. 2-3.
- ↑ Livy, xl. 42.
- ↑ Livy, xlii. 37-47.
- ↑ Polybius, xxvii. 1.
- ↑ Livy, xliii. 14.
- ↑ Livy, xliv. 1-16.
- ↑ Pliny the Elder, Natural History xii. 60.
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