Dom. 13.2
| ID | 1031 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Suetonius |
| Reference | Dom. 13.2 |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | |
| Source | Quotation: Inscription |
| Author | (unknown) |
| Addressee | (unknown) |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | ΑΡΚΙ |
| Latin Context | ianos arcusque cum quadrigis et insignibus triumphorum per regiones urbis tantos ac tot extruxit ut cuidam Graece inscriptum sit ΑΡΚΙ |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra? |
| Function Code Switch | Wordplay |
| Flagging | "ut cuidam Graece inscriptum sit" (flagged by Suetonius) |
| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Inscribed on one of Domitian's new arches to demonstrate the fact that people had had enough of them. |
| Comments | Pun = on Greek 'άρκεῖ' ('it is enough') and Latin 'arci' ('arches'; arci is a variant form of the plural of arcus : see TLL ii.475.80– 2 for the form). See Kaster 2016b: 258 for good discussion of the bilingualism of this word and its script. |