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- ↑ Livy. ii. 42.5
- ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.22
- ↑ Livy, 3.2
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- ↑ H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 9338, 2
- ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.36
- ↑ Livy, 3.31, 33
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 10.52, 56
- ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.43-45
- ↑ Livy, 3.70
- ↑ ILS 9338, 2
- ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vi, 37161
- ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.57
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .