1We can use that plot at Prusa, with the collapsed house which you write is vacant, for the building of the baths. 1But you have not made one thing clear enough, whether a shrine was built to Claudius in the peristyle. 1For if it was built, even though it has collapsed, its sanctity has taken possession of the ground.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.71
Trajan on the ruined house
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