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- 1 2 CIE, 6419.
- 1 2 CIE, 6454.
- 1 2 CIL I, 2908, CIL I, 2909; ILLRP, 64, p. 318; 237, p. 323; AE 1950, 165, AE 1950, 184a, AE 1950, 184b, AE 1952, 96, AE 1991, 684.
- 1 2 3 4 5 CIL XII, 5168; CAG XI. 1, p. 209.
- 1 2 CIL XII, 5169; CAG XI. 1, p. 460.
- ↑ Livy, iv. 17–19.
- ↑ Cicero, Philippicae, ix. 2.
- ↑ Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, vol. I, pp. 58, 59, 65.
- ↑ CAG, XXIV. 2, p. 279.