Trajan Marcus Ulpius Traianus

c. AD 111 · He refused the guild, and told him to provide equipment so that the owners of houses could fight fires themselves

But let us remember that that province, and those cities above all, have been troubled by factions of this kind. Whatever name we give them, and for whatever reason, men who have been brought together will soon become political clubs.

Sed meminerimus provinciam istam et praecipue eas civitates eius modi factionibus esse vexatas. Quodcumque nomen ex quacumque causa dederimus iis, qui in idem contracti fuerint, hetaeriae eaeque brevi fient.

Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.34, to Pliny

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