1My recent illness, my lord, put me under obligation to the doctor Postumius Marinus; 1and I can repay him with equal gratitude through your kindness if, in accordance with your customary goodness, you grant my requests. 2I ask, therefore, that you grant citizenship to his relatives: Chrysippus, son of Mithridates, and Chrysippus' wife, Stratonice, daughter of Epigonus, and also the children of the same Chrysippus, Epigonus and Mithridates, on condition that they remain in their father's power and that their rights as patrons over their freedmen be preserved. 2I likewise ask you to grant the right of Quirites to Lucius Satrius Abascantus, Publius Caesius Phosphorus and Pancharia Soteris; 2this I ask of you with the consent of their patrons.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.11
Citizenship for a doctor's family
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