Dom. 22.1

ID 1106
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.