Ner. 38.2
ID | 1119 |
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Corpus | Suetonius |
Reference | Ner. 38.2 |
Reference 2 | n/a |
Date | |
Source | Title of Work |
Author | Nero? |
Addressee | (unknown) |
Citation Greek Code Switch | Halosin Ilii |
Latin Context | hoc incendium e turre Maecenatiana prospectans laetusque 'flammae,' ut aiebat, 'pulchritudine' Halosin Ilii in illo suo scaenico habitu decantauit. |
Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
Function Code Switch | Naming: Song Title |
Flagging | |
Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
Context | Nero purportedly sang this whilst Rome burned |
Comments | Rolfe 1998a:151 suggests that the work may have been composed by Nero. Word 'halosis' also appears in Petron. 89 |