1The people of Prusa, my lord, have a bath; 1it is dirty and old. 1So they set great store by having a new one built; 1and I think you can grant their wish. 2For there will be money to build it with: first, what I have already begun to call in and collect from private persons; 2next, what they themselves usually pay out on oil, which they are ready to contribute to the building of the bath; 2something which in any case both the dignity of the city and the splendour of your age demand.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.23
A new bath for Prusa
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