Letter 10042: That lake you speak of may perhaps tempt me into making up my mind to connect it with the sea, but obviously careful...
Trajan to Pliny.
That lake you speak of may perhaps tempt me into making up my mind to connect it with the sea, but obviously careful investigations must be made to provide against its totally emptying itself if its waters be brought down to the sea, and to find out what volume of water flows into it, and what are the sources of supply. You will be able to obtain a surveyor from Calpurnius Macer, * and I will also send you someone who is an expert in that class of work.
[Note: Calpurnius Macer is known to have been legate of Lower Moesia in 112 A.D.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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