Letter 10028: As my freedman Maximus is on the point of setting out to collect stores of corn you did right to give him a guard of...
Trajan to Pliny.
As my freedman Maximus is on the point of setting out to collect stores of corn you did right to give him a guard of soldiers, for he was engaged on an extraordinary errand. But when he returns to his old duties, the two soldiers you assigned him and two more from Virdius Gemellinus, my procurator, whom he is assisting, will be quite sufficient for him.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
Related Letters
You may, my dear Pliny, without any religious scruples, if the site seems to require the change, remove the temple...
I am glad to learn from your letter, my dear Pliny, with what devotion and joy the troops and the provincials have...
I too have had a letter from Gabius Bassus, in which he says that the force assigned to him by my orders is inadequate.
That lake you speak of may perhaps tempt me into making up my mind to connect it with the sea, but obviously careful...
We may certainly utilise the courtyard and the ruined mansion, which you say is unoccupied, for the construction of...