ID	1069
Corpus	Suetonius
Reference	Aug. 98.4
Reference 2	n/a
Date
Source	Quotation: Oral
Author	Augustus
Addressee	(unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch	κτίστου δὲ τύμβον εἰσορῶ πυρούμενον
Latin Context	uersum compositum ex tempore clare pronuntiauit, κτίστου δὲ τύμβον εἰσορῶ πυρούμενον· conuersusque ad Thrasyllum Tiberi comitem contra accubantem et ignarum rei interrogauit cuiusnam poetae putaret esse
Inter/Intra Sentential	Inter
Function Code Switch	Quotation: Mock Literary
Flagging	"ex tempore clare pronuntiavit" (flagged by Suetonius)
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context	Composes verse upon seeing tomb of Masgaba (jokingly referred to as 'founder' of the island: see above) surrounded by torch bearers. Asks Thrasyllus, companion of Tiberius, which poet he thought wrote the lines
Comments	Note claim that this verse was composed "ex tempore": interesting in light of comment at Aug.89.1 that Augustus did not know Greek well enough "ut loqueretur expedite"