Aug. 72.2

ID 1100
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Aug. 72.2
Reference 2 n/a
Date
Source Quotation: Oral?
Author Augustus
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch τεγύφιον
Latin Context si quando quid secreto aut sine interpellatione agere proposuisset, erat illi locus in edito singularis, quem Syracusas et technyphion uocabat.
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Architecture
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Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Describes Augustus' retiring room at the top of the house; Augustus called it 'Syracuse' or 'technyphion'. Kaster 2016b: 118 argues that this might have been an Augustan coinage
Comments Some manuscript variation (e.g. tegnophion in Ω).