Letter 10092: The free and allied city * of Amisus, thanks to your favour, enjoys its own special laws.

Pliny the YoungerTrajan|c. 112 AD|Pliny the Younger
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To Trajan.

The free and allied city * of Amisus, thanks to your favour, enjoys its own special laws. I have enclosed with this letter, Sir, a memorial relating to their collections for the poor, that you may decide in what way the practice is to be permitted, to what lengths it may be carried, or where it should be checked.

[Note: Civitas foederata: a city whose autonomy was assured by a formal treaty.]

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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