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- ↑ AE 2008, 497.
- ↑ CIL XIV, 177, CIL XIV, 251.
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, p. 467 (V, No. 589).
- ↑ AE 1902, 11.
- ↑ AE 1988, 214.
- ↑ CIL VIII, 13338.
- ↑ Vermaseren, Corpus Inscriptionum Mithriacae, i. 275.
- ↑ O Arqueólogo Português, 1903-170,8a.
- ↑ Inscriptiones Africae Latinae, 318.
- ↑ CIL X, 8287.