X.cxvi.2

ID 1346
Corpus Pliny
Reference X.cxvi.2
Reference 2 n/a
Date 109–112?
Source Letter
Author Pliny
Addressee Trajan
Citation Greek Code Switch διανομῆς
Latin Context ita uereor ne ii qui mille homines, interdum etiam plures uocant, modum excedere et in speciem διανομῆς incidere uideantur.
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Politics/Law
Flagging
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Pliny asks whether the practice of issuing invitations to coming-of-age/marriage to the senate and common people in order to distribute money should be allowed/whether it is a corrupt practice
Comments See app.crit. for manuscript variants (not all in Greek lettering). Sherwin-White: διανομή commonly used in epigraphy to denote distributions of money