Latin Texts & Translations

CCXXXII (F XIII, 61)

TO P. SILIUS NERVA (PROPRAETOR OF BITHYNIA AND PONTUS) CILICIA

I think you know that I was very intimate with T. Pinnius. This fact he testified by his will, for he appointed me both a

guardian and an heir in the second degree. To his son, who is attached to me and is a man of learning and good character, the people of Nicaea owe a large sum of money, amounting to eight million sesterces (about £64,000), and, as I am informed, they are especially anxious to pay him. I shall be much obliged therefore—for not only the other guardians, who know how highly you value me, but the boy himself also are convinced that you will do anything for me—if you will take the trouble to see, as far as your honour and position will allow, that as large a part of the money as possible is paid to Pinnius on account of the people of Nicaea.