1What right the cities of Bithynia or Pontus ought to enjoy in respect of money which will be owed to the city for whatever reason must be determined from the law of each. 1For if they have a privilege by which they are preferred to other creditors, it must be upheld; if they do not, it will not be proper for me to grant it to the injury of private persons.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.109
Trajan on the cities' claims
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