1Appuleius, sir, a soldier who is at the post at Nicomedia, has written to me that a certain man named Callidromus, when he was being detained by Maximus and Dionysius, bakers to whom he had hired out his labour, took refuge at your statue, and, when brought before the magistrates, declared that he had once been the slave of Laberius Maximus, had been captured by Susagus in Moesia and sent by Decebalus as a gift to Pacorus, king of Parthia, had been in his service for many years, had then escaped, and so had come to Nicomedia. 2When he was brought before me and had told the same story, I thought he should be sent to you; 2I have done this a little late, while I was searching for a gem bearing the likeness of Pacorus and the regalia in which he was adorned, which he declared had been stolen from him.
3For I wanted to send this too at the same time, if it could have been found, just as I have sent a small nugget which he said he had brought from a Parthian mine. 3It has been sealed with my ring, whose device is a four-horse chariot.