Letter 10071: We may certainly utilise the courtyard and the ruined mansion, which you say is unoccupied, for the construction of...
Trajan to Pliny.
We may certainly utilise the courtyard and the ruined mansion, which you say is unoccupied, for the construction of the baths at Prusa. But you did not make it quite clear whether the temple in the colonnade was ever actually completed and consecrated to Claudius; for if it was, then even though it is now in ruins, the ground still remains specially sacred to him.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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