Ad M.Caes.ii.3.2 (p.130)
| ID | 1211 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Fronto |
| Reference | Ad M.Caes.ii.3.2 (p.130) |
| Reference 2 | VdH 27,22 |
| Date | 143, post 13 August |
| Source | Letter |
| Author | Marcus Aurelius |
| Addressee | Fronto |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | μέγα πρᾶγμα |
| Latin Context | igitur vale, decus eloquentiae Romanae, amicorum gloria, μέγα πρᾶγμα, homo iucundissime, consul amplissime, magister dulcissime. |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | Quotation: literary? |
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| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Given as one of a series of terms praising Fronto (other five are in Latin) |
| Comments | Demosth.928.6 (Haines); VdH comm: unlikely to have been taken from Demosthenes (his ref = 35,15): Herod.3,132,2 has ἠν μέγιστον πρᾶγμα Δημοκήδης παρὰ βασιλέι. For μέγα πρᾶγμα of a man see also Menandr.Sam.175: more common = μέγα χρῆμα |