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- ↑ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly , 31 (1981), pp. 191, 218
- ↑ Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 106
- ↑ Biographischer Index der Antike, p. 864
- ↑ Bennett, Trajan: Optimus Princeps: a Life and Times, p. 183