Roman Letters

Letter 10089: I acknowledge your prayer, my dear Pliny, that I may celebrate many happy birthdays, and that our Empire may...

Trajan→Pliny the Younger|c. 112 AD|Pliny the Younger|Human translated
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Trajan to Pliny.

I acknowledge your prayer, my dear Pliny, that I may celebrate many happy birthdays, and that our Empire may continue to prosper.

Human translation - Attalus.org

Latin / Greek Original

TRAIANUS PLINIO

Agnosco vota tua, mi Secunde carissime, quibus precaris, ut plurimos et felicissimos natales florente statu rei publicae nostrae agam.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from Attalus.org.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://www.attalus.org/pliny/ep10b.html

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