Letter 102

Pliny the YoungerTrajan|c. 112 AD|pliny younger

To Trajan.

We have celebrated with all due religious observance the lucky day upon which you succeeded to the throne and the care of the human race was placed in your keeping, * and have commended our public vows and thanksgivings to the gods who set you to rule over us.

[Note: 28th January.]

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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