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- ↑ Horace, Satirae, ii. 3. 84 ff.
- ↑ Porphyrion, Commentarii in Horatium.
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- ↑ Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 54.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 898 ("Staberius").
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- ↑ Broughton, vol. II, p. 283.
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- ↑ Suetonius, De Illustribus Grammaticis, 13.
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- ↑ CIL XVI, 23.
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