Life of Lucan
| ID | 1002 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Suetonius |
| Reference | Life of Lucan |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | |
| Source | Narration |
| Author | Suetonius |
| Addressee | (unknown) |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | hemistichium |
| Latin Context | neque uerbis aduersus principem neque factis exstantibus post haec temperauit, adeo ut quondam in latrinis publicis clariore cum srepitu uentris hemistichium Neronis magna consessorum fuga pronuntiarit: |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar |
| Flagging | |
| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Lucan shouted out a half line composed by the emperor Nero whilst at the public toilet: having had his poetry snubbed by Nero, he criticised him wherever possible |
| Comments | Earliest instance of this word In Latin literature in TLL (and only ref to it in OLD). Also at Suet. Virg. 41 |