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- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 309
- ↑ "Hadrianic Proconsuls of Africa", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 37 (1980), p. 16
- ↑ Digest 48.8.5
- ↑ Syme, "Hadrianic Proconsuls", pp. 1, 4