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- ↑ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
- ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita , 2.16
- ↑ Livy, 2.11
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