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| | Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Pliny, Letters |
 | | Flavius Archippus the philosopher has prevailed with me to give an order for 100,000 sesterces, to be laid out in the purchase of an estate for the support of him and his family, in the neighborhood of Prusa, his native country. |
 | | The question concerning such children who were exposed by their parents, and afterwards preserved by others, and educated in a state of servitude, though born free, has been frequently discussed; but I do not find in the constitutions of the emperors my predecessors, any general regulation upon this head, extending to all the provinces. |
 | | Eumolpus, who attended as counsel for Flavius Archippus, insisted that Dio should first be required to deliver in his accounts relating to this work, before it should be assigned to the corporation; suggesting that he had not performed his office in a requisite manner. |
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