1You acted with the greatest foresight, sir, in instructing Calpurnius Macer, a most distinguished man, to send a legionary centurion to Byzantium. 2Consider whether you think the people of Juliopolis too should be helped in a similar way; their city, though it is very small, bears very heavy burdens and suffers wrongs that are the more serious the weaker it is. 3Whatever you grant the people of Juliopolis, moreover, will benefit the whole province as well. 3For they lie at the entrance to Bithynia and provide a passage to very many who travel through it.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.77
A centurion for Juliopolis
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