Near the opening of this work, the author cites the proverb "one must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool," and the goddess Clotho removes three spindles from her box after agreeing to shorten the life of a certain person.
Near the opening of this work, the author cites the proverb "one must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool," and the goddess Clotho removes three spindles from her box after agreeing to shorten the life of a certain person. That figure quotes from the Odyssey asking "Who art thou, and what thy people? Who thy parents, where thy home?" when he's greeted by Hercules, who's frightened by him and thinks he's met his thirteenth labor. At the end, the main character is given as a present to Aeacus who delivers him to his freedman Menander to be a law clerk Â– though it had earlier been decided that he be condemned to rattle dice in a bottomless box for eternity. This all happens after Mercury carries him to the underworld, as a result of a speech ►by Augustus listing his crimes as emperor. FTP, name this satire credited to Seneca the Younger, about a Roman emperor who isn't exactly turned into a melon.     
Near the opening of this work, the author cites the proverb "one must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool," and the goddess Clotho removes three spindles from her box after agreeing to shorten the life of a certain person.
The Pumpkinification of the Divine Emperor Claudius (or Apocolocyntosis Â– or accept any translation mentioning Pumpkin/Gourd/etc. and Claudius)