1Domitian may indeed have been unaware of Archippus' status when he wrote so many things relating to his honour; 1but it is more in keeping with my nature to believe that his status too was relieved by the emperor's intervention, especially since the honour of statues has also been voted to him so many times by those who were not unaware of what Paulus as proconsul had pronounced about him. 2These considerations, however, my dearest Secundus, do not mean that, if any new charge is brought against him, you should think he deserves less of a hearing. 2I have read the petitions of Furia Prima, the accuser, and likewise of Archippus himself, which you had attached to your other letter.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.60
Trajan on Archippus' status
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