Ner. 11.2

ID 1004
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Ner. 11.2
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Narration
Author Suetonius
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch catadromum
Latin Context ludis […] notissimus eques R. elephanto supersidens per catadromum decucurrit
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch Referential
Flagging
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Passage describing the events Nero organised at the Ludi Maximi: included a knight riding an elephant down a rope
Comments Earliest instance of this word in Latin (=κατάδρομος). Cf. Plin.8.2.2 where the word is not used; instead, description "et per funes incessere" is given. Suet. Galb. 6.1 and reference to "elephantos funambulos"