Letter 73

Pliny the YoungerPliny the Younger|c. 112 AD|pliny younger

Trajan to Pliny.

If you will send me the decree of the senate which has made you hesitate, I will form my opinion as to whether or not you ought to investigate cases in which the petitioners claim they were born free, and demand the restitution of their birth-right.

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

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