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- ↑ Pliny, Historia Naturalis, ix. 25. s. 41; 30. s. 48; xxxii. 2. s. 6.
- ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 1202 ("Trebius Niger").
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, pp. 335, 336 (T, No. 243).
- ↑ Caesar, De Bello Gallico, iii. 7, 8.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. II, p. 212.
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, p. 335 (T, No. 241).
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- ↑ Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy.
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, p. 336 (T, No. 244).
- ↑ Digesta, 5. tit. 3. s. 5. § 1.