1It is clear, my dearest Secundus, that neither prudence nor diligence has been lacking in you with regard to that lake of yours, since you have foreseen so many measures by which it will not be in danger of being drained and will be of greater use to us. 1Choose, therefore, whatever the situation itself most strongly recommends. 1I believe Calpurnius Macer will see to it that he provides you with a surveyor, and those provinces of yours are not without such experts.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.62
Trajan approves the canal plans
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