Pliny, Letter 10.112

1The Pompeian law, sir, which the Bithynians and Pontians use, does not require those who are enrolled in the council by the censors to pay money; 1but those whom your indulgence has allowed certain cities to add beyond the lawful number have paid one or two thousand denarii each. 2Then Anicius Maximus as proconsul ordered that even those who were enrolled by the censors should pay, though only in a very few cities, different sums in different places. 3It remains, therefore, for you yourself to consider whether in all cities all who are henceforth enrolled as councillors ought to pay a fixed sum for their entry. 3For what is to remain in force in perpetuity ought to be laid down by you, to whose deeds and words eternity is owed.