Letter 10073: If you will send me the decree of the senate which has made you hesitate, I will form my opinion as to whether or...
Trajan to Pliny.
If you will send me the decree of the senate which has made you hesitate, I will form my opinion as to whether or not you ought to investigate cases in which the petitioners claim they were born free, and demand the restitution of their birth-right.
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