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- ↑ Demougin, Prosopographie des chevaliers, p. 549; CIL XI, 6940
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- ↑ Peter Weiß, "Zwei vollständige Konstitutionen für die Truppen in Noricum (8. Sept. 79) und Pannonia inferior (27. Sept. 154)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 146 (2004), pp. 239–254
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- ↑ CIL III, 11759; AE 1937, 61
- ↑ CIL III, 5179; CIL IX, 4753
- ↑ CIL III, 5163
- ↑ CIL III, 14362; CIL III, 5776
- ↑ CIL III, 5177; CIL XVI, 75
- ↑ CIL III, 5174, CIL III, 5181
- ↑ CIL III, 5182
- ↑ CIL III, 5170
- ↑ RMD-02, 93 = AE 1988, 915; CIL III, 5167, CIL III, 5175
- ↑ CIL III, 5165
- ↑ CIL III, 5173
- ↑ RGZM 32
- ↑ CIL III, 5164, CIL III, 5172
- ↑ CIL III, 5161; CIL III, 5169
- ↑ CIL III, 5166, CIL III, 11826
- ↑ CIL III, 5171; see also CIL VI, 1599, CIL IX, 2438, Cassius Dio, 71.5
- ↑ CIL III, 11543
- ↑ CIL X, 3849
- ↑ CIL IX, 4964
- 1 2 3 4 5 Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 272f
- ↑ IG 3499, 3500
- ↑ CIL III, 3421
- ↑ CIL VIII, 2615
