1Having been asked, sir, by the people of Nicaea officially, by what both is and ought to be most sacred to me, that is, by your eternity and safety, to pass on their petition to you, I did not think it right to refuse, and I have attached the petition I received from them to this letter.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.83
A petition from Nicaea
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