Letter 10050: You may, my dear Pliny, without any religious scruples, if the site seems to require the change, remove the temple...
Trajan to Pliny.
You may, my dear Pliny, without any religious scruples, if the site seems to require the change, remove the temple of the Mother of the Gods to a more suitable spot, nor need the fact that there is no record of legal consecration trouble you, for the soil of a foreign city may not be suitable for the consecration which our laws enjoin.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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