Letter 10113: It is impossible for me to draw up a general rule as to whether newly-made senators in every city in Bithynia ought...
Trajan to Pliny.
It is impossible for me to draw up a general rule as to whether newly-made senators in every city in Bithynia ought or ought not to pay an honorarium as entrance money. I think that the laws of each city should be observed - which is always the safest course to adopt . . . *
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Human translation - Attalus.org
Latin / Greek Original
TRAIANUS PLINIO
Honorarium decurionatus omnes, qui in quaque civitate Bithyniae decuriones fiunt, inferre debeant necne, in universum a me non potest statui. Id ergo, quod semper tutissimum est, sequendam cuiusque civitatis legem puto, sed verius eos, qui invitati fiunt decuriones, id existimo acturos, ut praestatione ceteris praeferantur.
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