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- 1 2 3 Livy, ii. 52.
- ↑ Per the Varronian chronology. Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates their consulship to "the seventy-sixth Olympiad (the one at which Scamander of Mitylene won the foot-race), when Phaedo was archon at Athens" or 475 BC. (Roman Antiquities, ix. 18.)
- ↑ Livy, ii. 50, 51.
- ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , ii. 51.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, ix. 23, 24.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, Roman History, v. 21.