Ner. 22.3

ID 1007
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Ner. 22.3
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Narration
Author Suetonius
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch agones
Latin Context instituerant ciuitates apud quas musici agones edi solent omnes citharoedorum coronas ad ipsum mittere
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Contest/Entertainment
Flagging
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Cities that had musical contests adopted the custom of sending the prizes to Nero
Comments Word also appears in Plin. Ep. IV.xxii.3 (catagorised as not likely a c-s), but S. does seem to be playing up the 'Greekness' of Nero's participation in contests/could have used certamina (as he does for example at the end of Ner.22.3 )