1How sparingly I grant these favours, my dearest Secundus, is certainly fixed in your mind, since I often declare even in the senate that I have not exceeded the number which I stated before that most honourable order would suffice for me. 1Nevertheless I have granted your request, and I have ordered it to be entered in my records that I have given the right of three children to Suetonius Tranquillus on the condition to which I am accustomed.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.95
Trajan grants Suetonius' request
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