Letter 10035: We have taken the usual vows, * Sir, for your safety, with which the public well-being is bound up, and at the same...
To Trajan.
We have taken the usual vows, * Sir, for your safety, with which the public well-being is bound up, and at the same time paid our vows of last year, praying the gods that they may ever allow us to pay them and renew them again.
[Note: On 3rd January, 112 A.D.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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