Virg. 44

ID 1065
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Virg. 44
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Quotation: Literary Work
Author M. Vipsanius
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch cacozeliae
Latin Context M. Vipsanius a Maecenate eum suppositum appellabat nouae cacozeliae repertore, non tumidae nec exilis, sed ex communibus uerbis, atque ideo latentis
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar
Flagging
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context M.Vipsanius' criticism of Virgil's new style of affected language that was "non tumidae nec exilis, sed ex communibus verbis"
Comments Word also appears at Aug. 86.2. Other refs = Quint. Inst. 1.13; Sen. suas. 2.16; Sen. suas.7.11; Sen. Con.9.1.15; Quint. Inst. 2.3.9; 8.6.73; 8.3.56. NB According to L&S, cacozelia appears written as Greek in Quint.2.3.9.