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Philo, On Virtues 105-108

The humanity of the Mosaic law toward resident aliens

Pliny the Elder, Natural History III.38-39

Praise of Italy.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History XXXVI.101-102

Rome as a triumphal Eighth Wonder of the World.

Pliny the Younger, Letters VII.32

The manumission of Junian Latins.

Pliny the Younger, Letters VIII.24

Exhortation to an imperial legate to respect free cities of Achaea.

Pliny the Younger, Letters X.23-24-70-71

The construction of the public baths at Prusa.

Pliny the Younger, Letters X.33-34

Trajan’s ban of an association of firemen in Nicomedia.

Pliny the Younger, Letters X.6-7

The Roman emperor and the grant of Alexandrian citizenship.

Pliny the Younger, Letters X.96-97

Pliny’s correspondence with the Emperor Trajan regarding how to deal with Christians.

Pliny the Younger, Panegyric of Trajan 37

Nerva’s reformation of the 5 percent tax on inheritances and legacies

Polybius, Histories XXXI.4

Dedication of a statue to the Roman Dēmos by the Rhodians.

Propertius, Elegies III.11.29-64

Cleopatra the symbol of women’s domination who threatened Roman power.

Propertius, Elegies III.4

Propertius forecasts Augustus’s future conquests in the East and his triumph.

Prudentius, Against Symmachus I.408-418, 427-432

Rome’s God-given superiority over the rest of the world, and why she should not debase herself

Prudentius, Against Symmachus I.455-466

Rome’s role as a bringer of law and justice to uncivilised nations, and why she must be prepared to continue this mission under Christ’s banner

Prudentius, Against Symmachus II.583-591, 608-620

The divine will behind Rome’s greatness, which wished to unite under one power numerous peoples

Prudentius, Against Symmachus Preface 80-89, I.1-8

The religious sickness of the “race of Romulus”

Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions IX.27

The imposition of Roman law on other nations

Pseudo-Paul, Sentences V.22.3-4

Ban on circumcision for non-Jews

Quadratus of Athens, Fragments of Quadratus from Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History IV.3.1-2

Quadratus presents an apology on behalf of the Christians to the emperor Hadrian

Judaism and Rome