De Eloquentia 4.3 (p.82)

ID 1208
Corpus Fronto
Reference De Eloquentia 4.3 (p.82)
Reference 2 VdH 151,22
Date 161 to 167
Source Letter
Author Fronto
Addressee Marcus Aurelius
Citation Greek Code Switch τί τὸ πρῶτον; τί τὸ δεύτερον;
Latin Context intellexisse adnuas; aliis legentibus ipse plerumque dormites; audias τί τὸ πρῶτον; τί τὸ δεύτερον; diu multumque numerari;
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch Quotation: imagined | GCS Philosophy
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Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Imagined discourse occurring as philosophy is taught
Comments VdH comm: Stoic teaching began with logic, but MA had lost all interest in this period = F's argument pointless.