VII.xii.2
| ID | 1311 |
|---|---|
| Corpus | Pliny |
| Reference | VII.xii.2 |
| Reference 2 | n/a |
| Date | 107 |
| Source | Letter |
| Author | Pliny |
| Addressee | Falco |
| Citation Greek Code Switch | ὑμεῖς γὰρ οἱ εὔζηλοι |
| Latin Context | ὑμεῖς γὰρ οἱ εὔζηλοι optima quaeque detrahitis. |
| Inter/Intra Sentential | Intra |
| Function Code Switch | GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar |
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| Syntactic/Grammatical Info | |
| Context | Pliny sends over his speech on behalf of a common friend (Sherwin-White suggests Atilius Crescens); criticises the tendency of Atticists to "optima quaeque detrahitis" |
| Comments | cf.Quintilian Inst.Orat.VIII.iii.55ff: uses κακόζηλοι to refer to exponents of the Asiatic style. See app.crit. for manuscript variants |