Ad Marcum Antoninum de orationibus (p.102)
| ID | 1249 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Fronto |
| Reference | Ad Marcum Antoninum de orationibus (p.102) |
| Reference 2 | VdH 154,1 |
| Date | 161 to 167 |
| Source | Letter |
| Author | Fronto |
| Addressee | Marcus Aurelius |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | dictabolaria |
| Latin Context | ut Laberius ait, 'dictabolaria', immo dicteria potius eura quam dicta confingere |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | Quotation: literary (Laberius)? |
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| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Attacking Plautine expression. |
| Comments | VdH: a coinage of Laberius, possibly a hybrid of dicta and βωλάριον. Patrick James: *dict- may be an inherited element with a Greek cognate, if so not a loan or code-switch. Alternatively, we have dictă βωλά̆ριᾰ (as it were, or δεικτὰ̆ βωλάρια) ‘spoken clodettes’, which is readily admissible in an iambic or trochaic sequence. This then would be a code-switch intra-phrase. The Greek diminutive βωλάριον appears in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations IV.15, VI.36. See Panayotakis. |