Dom. 22.1
ID | 1106 |
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Corpus | Suetonius |
Reference | Dom. 22.1 |
Reference 2 | n/a |
Date | |
Source | Quotation: Oral? |
Author | Domitian |
Addressee | (unknown) |
Citation Greek Code Switch | clinopalen |
Latin Context | libidinis nimiae, assiduitatem concubitus uelut exercitationis genus clinopalen uocabat eratque fama quasi concubinas ipse deuelleret nataretque inter uulgatissimas meretrices |
Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
Function Code Switch | GCS Amor | GCS Contest/Entertainment |
Flagging | "assiduitatem concubitus velut exercitationis genus...vocabat" (flagged by Suetonius) |
Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
Context | Passage descrbing Domitian's excessive lustfulness. Here calls his sexual intercourse 'bed-wrestling', "as if it were a kind of exercise" |
Comments | TLL gives ref to schol.Hor.epist.1.14.21. L&S notes this passage and comments that in Aur. Vict. Caes. 11, the word is used as Greek. |