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|Human translated
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.]

Human translationAttalus.org

Latin / Greek Original

C. PLINIUS TRAIANO IMPERATORI
Victoriae tuae, optime imperator, maximae, pulcherrimae, antiquissimae et tuo nomine et rei publicae gratulor, deosque immortales precor, ut omnes cogitationes tuas tam laetus sequatur eventus, cum virtutibus tantis gloria imperii et novetur et augeatur.

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