Letter 10050: You may, my dear Pliny, without any religious scruples, if the site seems to require the change, remove the temple...
L Trajan to Pliny.
You may, my dear Pliny, without any religious scruples, if the site seems to require the change, remove the temple of the Mother of the Gods to a more suitable spot, nor need the fact that there is no record of legal consecration trouble you, for the soil of a foreign city may not be suitable for the consecration which our laws enjoin.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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