Letter 10095: You assuredly know, my dear Pliny, how sparingly I grant these favours, for I often declare in the senate that I...
L Trajan to Pliny.
You assuredly know, my dear Pliny, how sparingly I grant these favours, for I often declare in the senate that I have not exceeded the number with which I told that august order I should be content. However, I have granted your request, and I have ordered a note to be entered on my diaries that I have bestowed the privilege of the ius trium liberorum upon Suetonius Tranquillus on the customary understanding.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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