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Apocolocyntosis
thumb|300px|Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall.
The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally Pumpkinification/Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius (), which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on the Death of the Divine Claudius") in its surviving manuscripts, may or may not be identical to the text mentioned by Cassius Dio. "Apocolocyntosis" is a word play on "apotheosis", the proce

Naturales quaestiones
Latin work of natural philosophy by Seneca