1You may, my dearest Secundus, without anxiety on religious grounds, if the situation of the site seems to require it, move the temple of the Mother of the Gods to the place which is more suitable; 1nor should it trouble you that no charter of dedication is found, since the soil of a foreign city is not capable of the dedication which is made under our law.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.50
Trajan allows the temple's removal
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