1I too see no other remedy, my dearest Secundus, than that the rate of interest be lowered, so that the public funds may be placed more easily. 1You will fix its level according to the number of those who will borrow. 1To compel people against their will to accept a loan, which may perhaps be of no use to them, is not in keeping with the justice of our times.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.55
Trajan on lowering interest
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