Letter 10014: I congratulate you, best of emperors, on your most remarkable, magnificent, and illustrious victory * in your own...

Pliny the YoungerTrajan|c. 112 AD|Pliny the Younger
illnessimperial politics

To Trajan.

I congratulate you, best of emperors, on your most remarkable, magnificent, and illustrious victory * in your own name and that of the State, and I pray the immortal gods that an equally happy result may attend all your plans, that so the glory of your empire may be renewed and increased by your conspicuous virtues.

[Note: In Dacia, probably in 106 A.D.]

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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