1As to the people of Nicaea, who claim that the right to the property of their citizens who die intestate was granted them by the deified Augustus, you will have to give them a hearing, bringing together all the persons concerned in the same matter, with Virdius Gemellinus and my freedman Epimachus, the procurators, called in to assist, so that, having weighed also the arguments made on the other side, you may decide what you believe to be best.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.84
Trajan on Nicaea's claim
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