Letter 10068: Several persons have petitioned me to grant them leave, as other proconsuls have done before my time, to transfer to...
To Trajan.
Several persons have petitioned me to grant them leave, as other proconsuls have done before my time, to transfer to other resting-places the remains of their ancestors, owing to the ravages of time, the inundation of rivers, or some other similar reasons. Knowing as I do that in Rome the permission of the pontifical college is necessary in such cases, I have thought that I ought to consult you. Sir, as pontifex maximus, as to the course you would wish me to pursue.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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