Letter 10105: Your early solicitation of my favour for those who have been placed under your patronage by Valerius Paulinus does...
L Trajan to Pliny.
Your early solicitation of my favour for those who have been placed under your patronage by Valerius Paulinus does you so much credit that I have in the meantime given orders for a note to be entered in my archives to the effect that I have bestowed the full Roman citizenship on those for whom you have asked it, and I will do the same for the others upon your making application.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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