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- ↑ J Davie trans., Horace: Satires and Epistles (OUP 2011) p. 144
- ↑ D R Shackleton Bailey trans., Cicero's Letters to his Friends (Atlanta 1988) p. xii and p. 828
- ↑ D R Shackleton Bailey trans., Cicero's Letters to his Friends (Atlanta 1988) p. 73 ad fam. vii.5
- ↑ D R Shackleton Bailey trans., Cicero's Letters to his Friends (Atlanta 1988) p. 85 and p. 828
- ↑ A Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics (1985) p.124 (Inst. 2.25 pr.)
- ↑ D R Shackleton Bailey trans., Cicero's Letters to his Friends (Atlanta 1988) p. 89 ad fam. vii.14
- ↑ A Palmer ed., The Satires of Horace (London 1920) p. 242
- ↑ A Palmer ed., The Satires of Horace (London 1920) p. 243
- ↑ A Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics (1985) p. 2
- ↑ A Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics (1985) p.123
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