Gram. et rhet. 25.5

ID 1018
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Gram. et rhet. 25.5
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Narration
Author Suetonius
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch ύποθέσεις
Latin Context olim autem eas appellatione Graeca ὑποθέσις uocabant, mox controuersias quidem, sed aut fictas aut iudiciales
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar
Flagging "olim autem eas appellatione Graeca" (flagged by Suetonius, although change from Greek appellation to Latin appellation ("controversias") perhaps also noted by rhetoricians themselves)
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Changing practices of rhetoricians: debates originally called by their Greek name, but soon changed to call them "controversias"
Comments NB There is some variation between manuscripts/versions: e.g some print syntaxis/sintaxis/syntasis.