1Maximus, your freedman and procurator, my lord, says that besides the ten beneficiarii whom you ordered me to assign to the excellent Gemellinus, he too needs six soldiers. 1These I thought I should leave in his service for the time being, as I had found them, especially since he was going to Paphlagonia to procure grain. 1What is more, I added two cavalrymen for his protection, since he so wished. 1For the future, I ask you to write back what you wish to be observed.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.27
Soldiers for the freedman Maximus
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