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- ↑ His full name, including office, is attested in CIL XV, 7439
- ↑ Camodeca, "La carriera del prefetto del pretorio Sex.Cornelius Repentinus in una nuova iscrizioneputeolana", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 43 (1981), pp. 43-56. The reconstructed inscription can be seen at AE 1980, 235
- ↑ The last position is confirmed by CIL VI, 1564 = ILS 1452
- ↑ Historia Augusta, "Antoninus Pius", 8.8-9
- ↑ AE 1916, 47
- ↑ Ad amicos, ii.4. English translation in Charles R. Haines, The correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and various friends, (London: Heinemann, 1919) vol. 1, pp. 282f
- ↑ Anthony Birley, Septimus Severus: the African Emperor, revised edition (New Haven: Yale University, 1989), p. 95