78 (IV.4a.1)

ID 678
Corpus Cicero: Ad Atticum
Reference 78 (IV.4a.1)
Reference 2 n/a
Date 20/6/56
Source Letter
Author Cicero
Addressee Atticus
Citation Greek Code Switch σιττύβας
Latin Context
Inter/Intra Sentential Intra
Function Code Switch GCS Literature/Rhetoric/Grammar
Flagging "quos vos Graeci, ut opinor…appellatis"
Syntactic/Grammatical Info
Context Cicero is organising his library and requests help from Atticus.
Comments Greek term for 'book labels'; self-conscious code-switch: "quos vos Graeci, ut opinor…appellatis". Cf. 79 (IV.8.2) and 80 (IV.5.3) where the word is Latinised. Shackleton Bailey: "Cicero would hardly have Latinized here, with vos Graeci appellatis, but might well do so in the other two passages". Tyrrell prints sillabos.