Letter 10108: I beg you, Sir, to send me word what legal rights you wish the cities of Bithynia and Pontus to possess in getting...
To Trajan.
I beg you, Sir, to send me word what legal rights you wish the cities of Bithynia and Pontus to possess in getting in moneys which may be due to them, either as rents or the proceeds of sales, or for any other cause. I have found that they have been granted the position of preferential creditors by many proconsuls, and that the privilege has acquired a sort of legal sanction. I think, however, that you should make some definite decree on the subject by means of which their rights may be established for the future, for the preferential claim, however justly granted to them by the proconsuls, will be short-lived and invalid unless it receives your official authorisation.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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