Ner. 40.2

ID 1110
Corpus Suetonius
Reference Ner. 40.2
Reference 2 n/a
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Source Quotation: Oral?
Author Nero
Addressee (unknown)
Citation Greek Code Switch τὸ τέχνιον ἡμᾶς διατρέφει
Latin Context praedictum a mathematicis Neroni olim erat fore ut quandoque destitueretur, unde illa uox eius celeberrima, τὸ τέχνιον ἡμᾶς διατρέφει, quo maiore scilicet uenia meditaretur citharoedicam artem principi sibi gratam, priuato necessariam
Inter/Intra Sentential Inter?
Function Code Switch Quotation: proverb/gnomic statement
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Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context In response to an astorloger predicting that he would one day "destitueretur", Nero produced the following saying to justify his lyre-playing
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