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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Sampson, Gareth C. (2013-09-09). The collapse of Rome : Marius, Sulla and the first Civil War, 91-70 BC. Barnsley, South Yorkshire. ISBN 9781473826854. OCLC 893910287.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Appianus of Alexandria (1899). The Roman History Vol. 2: The Civil Wars. Horace White (trans.). London: Macmillan & Co. pp. 34.
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- ↑ Florus, iii. 18
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "T. Afranius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 55.
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