1That question, which concerns those who were born free, exposed, and then taken up by certain people and brought up in slavery, has often been discussed, and nothing is found in the records of the emperors before me which was laid down for all the provinces. 2There are indeed letters of Domitian to Avidius Nigrinus and Armenius Brocchus which perhaps ought to be observed: but among the provinces about which he wrote back Bithynia is not included; 2and therefore I think that a claim to freedom should not be denied to those who will be claimed as free on grounds of this kind, nor should their freedom itself have to be bought back by paying for their maintenance.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.66
Trajan rules on foundlings
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