1Since you wish, most honourably, that those who were entrusted to your good faith by Valerius Paulinus should be provided for promptly through me, I have ordered it to be entered in my records that I have meanwhile given Roman citizenship to those for whom you have now asked, and I shall do the same for the others for whom you ask.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.105
Trajan grants the citizenship
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