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- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1977), p. 153 n. 58
- ↑ Richard Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton: University Press, 1984), p. 16
- ↑ Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 216