Letter 10093: If permission has been granted to the people of Amisus, whose memorial you enclosed with your letter, in the laws...
Trajan to Pliny.
If permission has been granted to the people of Amisus, whose memorial you enclosed with your letter, in the laws which govern the terms of their alliance, to make a collection for the poor, we have no reason to prevent them ; and we can permit it the more readily in that the collection is utilised for the support of the distressed and not to bring people together and form illicit societies. But in other free states which are under our jurisdiction collections of this kind are not to be permitted.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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