What is the function of "に" in the following sentence?


> 奴隷の分際で王に敬称で呼んでいただくなど……恐れ多いことです。

The slave asked the king to call him by his first name instead of using his
surname + "san", so the king asked him why. Then, the slave answered the above
sentence.

I don't understand the function of the particle "に", because it seems to imply
that is too much to call a king with honorifics, although with the context,
it's exactly the opposite: to call a slave with honorifics. Is "に" linked to
"いただく"?




It's the other way around. "王に敬称で呼んでいただくなど……恐れ多いことです。" means it is too much
for the king to call him with honorifics. The form Aに<てVerb>いただく simply means
A is doing the action for the speaker.




It's the other way around. "王に敬称で呼んでいただくなど……恐れ多いことです。" means it is too much
for the king to call him with honorifics. The form Aに<てVerb>いただく simply means
A is doing the action for the speaker.

