Swain, Simon (2002). Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy. Oxford University Press, გვ. 57. ISBN9780199255214. „Nevertheless, in 92 the same office went to a Greek, Ti. Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who belonged to a family of priests of Rome hailing from Sardis; entering the Senate under Vespasian, he was subsequently to be appointed proconsul of Asia under Trajan, possibly in 105/6. Celsus' son, Aquila, was also to be made suffectus in 110, although he is certainly remembered more as the builder of the famous library his father envisioned for Ephesus.“
Nicols, John (1978). Vespasian and the partes Flavianae. Steiner, გვ. 109. ISBN9783515023931. „Ti. Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (PIR2 J 260) was a Romanized Greek of Ephesus or Sardes who became the first eastern consul.“