Letter 10119: It seems to me that the rewards ought to begin to be due from the date when the winner makes his public entry into...
L Trajan to Pliny.
It seems to me that the rewards ought to begin to be due from the date when the winner makes his public entry into his own city. The special rewards for those contests which I have been pleased to class as iselastic ought not to be retrospective, if they were not iselastic before. Nor does the fact that the victors no longer receive the rewards for the contests from which I have taken away the iselastic privileges assist their claim, for though the conditions of the contests are changed, the rewards which they have carried off are not reclaimed.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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