1When certain people were asking that I should myself hear cases concerning the recognition of children and the restoration of freeborn status, both according to the letter of Domitian written to Minicius Rufus and according to the precedents of the proconsuls, I looked at the decree of the senate relating to the same kinds of cases, which speaks only of those provinces which proconsuls govern; 1and therefore I have postponed the matter undecided until you, sir, instruct me what you wish me to observe.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.72
Recognition of children and status
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