1Valerius Paulinus, sir, passing over Paulinus, has left me his rights over his Latin freedmen; 1of these I ask you meanwhile to grant Roman citizenship to three. 1For I fear that it may be excessive to call upon your indulgence for all of them at once, an indulgence which I ought to use the more modestly, the more fully I experience it. 1Those for whom I ask are these: Gaius Valerius Astraeus, Gaius Valerius Dionysius, Gaius Valerius Aper.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.104
Citizenship for Latin freedmen
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