Cal. 29.1
| ID | 1103 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Suetonius |
| Reference | Cal. 29.1 |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | |
| Source | Quotation: Oral? |
| Author | Caligula |
| Addressee | (unknown) |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | ἀδιατρεψίαν |
| Latin Context | Nihil magis in natura sua laudare se ac probare dicebat quam, ut ipsius uerbo utar, ἀδιατρεψίαν, hoc est inuerecundiam. |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | GCS Philosophy |
| Flagging | "ut ipsias verbo utar" (flagged by Suetonius: also flags translation: "hoc est inverecundiam") |
| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Caligula claims that he admires his "immobility" (a Stoic virtue) more highly than anything else in his character. Suetonius, however, 'translates' this into "inverecundia" (shamelessness or immodesty). |
| Comments | Difference of interpretation/inversion provided by translation of the term into Latin by Suetonius here. Rolfe 1998b: 463 explains the translation by arguing that in Caligula, 'immobility' took the form of "callous indifference to suffering" |