Letter 10007: I make a practice of following the rules of my predecessors in not making promiscuous grants of the Alexandrine...
L Trajan to Pliny.
I make a practice of following the rules of my predecessors in not making promiscuous grants of the Alexandrine citizenship, but since you have already obtained the Roman citizenship for Harpocras, your ointment-doctor, I cannot very well refuse this further request of yours. You must let me know to what district he belongs, so that I may write to my friend Pompeius Planta, who is praefect of Egypt.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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