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- ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus (20)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 92
- ↑ Sallust, Jugurthine War Jug. 35, 36, 39, 44
- ↑ Orosius, iv. 15
- ↑ Eutropius, iv. 26
- ↑ Cicero, Brut. 34
- ↑ comp. Sallust, Jugurthine War 40
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus (20)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . 1. p. 92.