IV.xi.12

ID 1300
Corpus Pliny
Reference IV.xi.12
Reference 2 n/a
Date 104–105
Source Letter
Author Pliny
Addressee Cornelius Minicianus
Citation Greek Code Switch κεῖται Πάτροκλος
Latin Context locutus est pro absente Herennius Senecio tale quiddam, quale est illud: κεῖται Πάτροκλος.
Inter/Intra Sentential Inter
Function Code Switch Quotation: literary (Homer)
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Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Describes Herennius' Senecio's announcement that Licinianus was withdrawing his defence after being charged by Domitian of hiding one of Cornelia's freedwomen on his estate
Comments Quint.Inst.Orat.X.i.49 quoting Iliad XVIII.20 as a model of the brief style