1You have given many reasons for requesting leave, and all of them public; 1but for me your wish alone would have been enough. 1For I do not doubt that you will return as soon as you can to so demanding an office. 1I allow a statue of me to be set up by you in the place you desire, although I am most sparing of honours of this kind, so as not to seem to have checked the course of your devotion towards me.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.9
Trajan grants leave and a statue
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