Letter 10083: I have been publicly asked, Sir, by what is and ought to be the most sacred thing in the world to me, I mean your...
L To Trajan.
I have been publicly asked, Sir, by what is and ought to be the most sacred thing in the world to me, I mean your eternal fame and well-being, to forward to you a memorial of the people of Nicaea, and therefore, as I did not think it right to refuse, I accepted it and enclose it with this letter.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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