Letter 10028: As my freedman Maximus is on the point of setting out to collect stores of corn you did right to give him a guard of...
L Trajan to Pliny.
As my freedman Maximus is on the point of setting out to collect stores of corn you did right to give him a guard of soldiers, for he was engaged on an extraordinary errand. But when he returns to his old duties, the two soldiers you assigned him and two more from Virdius Gemellinus, my procurator, whom he is assisting, will be quite sufficient for him.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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