1You need not have hesitated, my dearest Secundus, over the matter on which you thought I should be consulted, since you knew very well my resolve that respect for my name should not be won through people's fear and terror or through charges of treason. 2So, setting aside that question, which I would not entertain even if it were supported by precedents, let the accounts of the whole work carried out under the charge of Cocceianus Dio be examined, since both the interest of the city requires it and Dio neither refuses nor ought to refuse.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.82
Trajan dismisses the treason charge
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