1Whether all who become town councillors in each city of Bithynia ought to pay a fee for the office of councillor or not cannot be laid down by me universally. 1I think, therefore, that what is always safest should be done, and the law of each city followed; but I consider it truer to say that those who become councillors by invitation will make sure that they surpass the others in their payment.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.113
Trajan leaves fees to local law
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