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- ↑ Fasti Ostienses
- ↑ Anthony Birley, Marcus Aurelius: A Biography, revised edition (New York: Routledge, 1987), p. 238
- ↑ Ronald Syme, "Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettuleni", Athenaeum, 35 (1957), pp. 306-315
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| Preceded by Marcus Vitorius Marcellus, and Gaius Caecilius Strabo as Suffect consuls | Consul of the Roman Empire 106 with Lucius Ceionius Commodus | Succeeded by Lucius Minicius Natalis, and Quintus Licinius Silvanus Granianus Quadronius Proculus as Suffect consuls |