Ad Antoninum Imp.i.2.4 (p.40)

ID 1173
Corpus Fronto
Reference Ad Antoninum Imp.i.2.4 (p.40)
Reference 2 VdH 89,3
Date 161
Source Letter
Author Fronto
Addressee Marcus Aurelius
Citation Greek Code Switch σχήματα (Haines); schemata (VdH)
Latin Context quisquam illorum his figurationibus uteretur, quae Graeci schemata vocant?
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar
Flagging quae Graeci…vocant
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Discusses MA's use of Greek rhetorical features; compares his rhetoric favourably to that of other emperors
Comments VdH comm: Latin form schemata found in Petron.126,8; Mart.3,68,7; several times in Seneca's Controversiae and Quintilian's Institutio, but not in Cicero, Brut.141. See also comm on 177,22-3.