Letter 10035: We have taken the usual vows, * Sir, for your safety, with which the public well-being is bound up, and at the same...
To Trajan.
We have taken the usual vows, * Sir, for your safety, with which the public well-being is bound up, and at the same time paid our vows of last year, praying the gods that they may ever allow us to pay them and renew them again.
[Note: On 3rd January, 112 A.D.]
Human translation - Attalus.org
Latin / Greek Original
C. PLINIUS TRAIANO IMPERATORI
Sollemnia vota pro incolumitate tua, qua publica salus continetur, et suscepimus, domine, pariter et solvimus precati deos, ut velint ea semper solvi semperque signari.
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