1The iselastic reward seems to me to begin to be owed only when a man has himself 'driven in' to his own city. 1Allowances for those contests which I have decided shall be iselastic are not owed retrospectively, if they were not iselastic before. 1Nor can it help the athletes' claim that they have ceased to receive allowances for those contests which, after they had won, I decided should not be iselastic. 1For although the status of the contests has been changed, what they had received before is nevertheless not recalled.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.119
Trajan on the athletes' claims
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