1What is to be decided in the case of those who were banished for three years by Publius Servilius Calvus as proconsul and soon restored by his edict, and who have remained in the province, I shall write back to you shortly, when I have asked Calvus for his reasons for that act. 2As for the man who was banished for life by Julius Bassus, since he had two years in which to plead his case, if he thinks he was banished unjustly, and did not do so but persisted in staying in the province, he must be sent in chains to the prefects of my praetorian guard. 2For it is not enough for him to be returned to the sentence which he evaded by his defiance.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.57
Trajan rules on the exiles
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