1Having been asked, sir, by Publius Accius Aquila, a centurion of the sixth mounted cohort, to send you a petition in which he begs your indulgence for the status of his daughter, I thought it harsh to refuse, since I knew how much patience and kindness you are accustomed to show to the requests of soldiers.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.106
A centurion's plea for his daughter
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