Ad M.Caes.iii.17 (p.108)
| ID | 1228 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Fronto |
| Reference | Ad M.Caes.iii.17 (p.108) |
| Reference 2 | VdH 50,16 |
| Date | 143 to 145 |
| Source | Letter |
| Author | Marcus Aurelius |
| Addressee | Fronto |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | τυφλοῦται γὰρ τὸ φιλοῦν περὶ τὸ φιλούμενον |
| Latin Context | ubi me conprobas, ut ait nescio quis Graecus (puto Thucydides) τυφλοῦται γὰρ τὸ φιλοῦν περὶ τὸ φιλούμενον, item tu partim meorum prope caeco amore interpretatus es. |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | Quotation: literary (Plutarch?) |
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| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | MA claims that Fronto is blinded by love in his judgement of MA's work |
| Comments | Haines has MA attribute quotation to Theophrastus (but see note "for Cod. Thucydides"; VdH has MA attribute it to Thucydides. VdH comm: Thucydides is an error: quotation from Plato (see refs) |