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- ↑ Jaques, Tony (2007). Dictionary of battles and sieges : a guide to 8500 battles from antiquity through the twenty-first century. Vol 2, F-O. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 618. ISBN 9780313335389 . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus. Rolfe, J.C. (ed.). The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus Book XXIV. Loeb Classical Library . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ↑ Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , (The Modern Library,1932), ch. XXIV., pp. 798, 799.
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- ↑ Gibbon, p. 816
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