1You rightly had confidence in my attitude, my dearest Secundus, and there would have been no need to doubt, if you had waited until you consulted me, whether your wife's journey should be helped by the travel permits which I gave you for your duties, since your wife was bound to increase the gratitude for her arrival by its speed as well.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.121
Trajan approves the permits
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