Letter 10105: Your early solicitation of my favour for those who have been placed under your patronage by Valerius Paulinus does...
Trajan to Pliny.
Your early solicitation of my favour for those who have been placed under your patronage by Valerius Paulinus does you so much credit that I have in the meantime given orders for a note to be entered in my archives to the effect that I have bestowed the full Roman citizenship on those for whom you have asked it, and I will do the same for the others upon your making application.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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