Gram. et rhet. 10.5
| ID | 1050 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Suetonius |
| Reference | Gram. et rhet. 10.5 |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | |
| Source | Quotation: Letter |
| Author | Lucius Ateius Philologus |
| Addressee | Laelius Hermas |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | hylen |
| Latin Context | de quorum tamen copia sic altera ad eundem Hermam epistula significat: hylen nostram aliis memento commendare, quam omnis generis coegimus, uti scis, octingentos in libros. |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | Naming: title of work |
| Flagging | |
| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Title of Ateius Philologus' book; writes to Hermas to ask him to recommend it to everyone. NB Suetonius comments that Ateius Praetextus adopted the name Philologus because he 'regarded himself as a man of wide and varied learning' (trans. Rolfe) |
| Comments | Greek equivalent of Latin 'silva' meaning a collection of material for a literary work |