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- ↑ Jones, A.H.M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, John, eds. (1980). "Venantius 2". Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. II. p. 1153. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.
- ↑ Cassiodorus, Variae epistolae, II, 16
- ↑ O'Donnell, "Liberius the Patrician", Traditio, 37 (1981), p. 34 n. 11
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