Virg. 29

ID 1064
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Virg. 29
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Quotation: Literary Work
Author Seneca/Julius Montanus
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch hypocrisin
Latin Context ac Seneca tradidit, Iulium Montanum poetam solitum dicere, inuolaturum se Vergilio quaedam, si et uocem posset et os et hypocrisin
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar
Flagging
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Suetonius records Semeca saying that the poet Julius Montanus used to desire to steal Virgil's work as long as he could also steal his voice, expression and dramatic power.
Comments TLL: earliest instance of this word in Latin