Ner. 40.2
| ID | 1110 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Suetonius |
| Reference | Ner. 40.2 |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | |
| 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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