place
Amisus
also: Amisenorum, Amisenos
A free and federated Greek city on the Pontic coast, governed by its own laws, whose request to keep a benefit-society Trajan allowed.
Reading notes
- The Letters §10.92.1 free and federated
A civitas libera et foederata: an allied city bound to Rome by treaty, left to govern itself by its own laws rather than Roman law.
- The Letters §10.110.1 advocate
The ecdicus (Greek ekdikos), the legal representative of a city, here suing on behalf of Amisus to recover a public grant.