1Just as my instructions forbid grants to be made from public funds, so, in order that the security of many may not be undermined, those made some considerable time ago should not be reopened and declared void. 1Let us, therefore, leave aside whatever was done in this matter twenty years ago. 1For I wish the people of each place to be provided for no less than the public funds.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.111
Trajan lets old grants stand
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