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Claudius I (Tiberius Claudius Nero Drusus; officially Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (10 B.C.-54 A.D.). Roman Emperor (41-54 A.D.). "After his death Claudius was deified, giving occasion to the bitter satire of Seneca, Apocolocyntosis, Gourdification, or Pumpinification. " (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. V, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 421.)
Guglielmo Ferrero, The Women of the Caesars (New York: The Century Company, 1911) 247.
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