Letter 10044: You have done quite right, my dear Pliny, in cancelling the expenditure by the people of Byzantium of those twelve...
Trajan to Pliny.
You have done quite right, my dear Pliny, in cancelling the expenditure by the people of Byzantium of those twelve thousand sesterces on a delegate to come and pay their respects to me. They will for the future do their duty well enough, even though the decree alone is sent on to me through you. The governor of Moesia will also pardon them if they are less lavish in the honours they show him.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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