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- ↑ Raymond Davis, translator, The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 56
- ↑ Procopius, De Bellis V.12.2. Translated by H.B. Dewing, Procopius (Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1979), vol. 3 p. 117
- ↑ Procopius, De Bellis V.26.1-2. Translated by Dewing, Procopius, vol. 3 p. 247
- ↑ Procopius, De Bellis VI.21.40. Translated by Dewing, Procopius, vol. 4 p. 55
- ↑ Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 247
- ↑ Richards, Popes and the Papacy, p. 241
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