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- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, ix. 40, 41.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. I, p. 30.
- ↑ Sallust, Historiae, ii. 70.
- ↑ Broughton, vol. II, p. 103.
- ↑ Valerius Maximus, xi. 8. § 6.
- ↑ Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 6. § 44.
- ↑ Quintilian, iv. 1. § 11; vii. 2. § 7; 3. §§ 1, 26; 4. § 1.
- ↑ Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 38.
- ↑ PIR, vol. III, p. 490 (V, No. 682).
- ↑ CIL X, 3389.
- ↑ AE 1979, 166.
- ↑ CIL V, 7769.
- ↑ AE 1995, 1773.
- ↑ Bakker and Galsterer-Kröll, Graffiti auf römischer Keramik im Rheinischen Landesmuseum Bonn, 547.