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- ↑ Cornell 1995 , p. 123, citing Livy, 1.56. The sons, according to Pictor, were – in birth order – Titus, Sextus, and Arruns.
- ↑ Gantz 1975, p. 544.
- ↑ That Titus was regent of Signia may be dubious: Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 5.20.1 and Plut. Pub. 76.2 report that Signia was founded by the consuls of 508 BC. Broughton 1951 , p. 5.
- ↑ Gantz 1975 , pp. 544–45, citing Livy, 1.56; Dion. Hal. Rom. Ant. 6.11.
- ↑ Livy, 1.60.
- ↑ Gantz 1975 , pp. 544–45, citing Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom., 4.11.
- ↑ Broughton 1951 , pp. 10–11, citing Livy, 2.19.3–20.13, 2.21.3–4.
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