1As for the people of Amisus, whose petition you had attached to your letter, if they are allowed by their own laws, which they enjoy by the favour of their treaty, to have a benefit society, we can refrain from preventing them from having one, the more readily if they use such contributions not for riots and unlawful assemblies but for relieving the poverty of the humbler sort. 1In the other cities, which are bound by our law, a thing of this kind must be forbidden.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.93
Trajan on benefit societies
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