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Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 8.1
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1. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.33-1.37, 1.52, 1.63 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 8.2, 9.3, 11.3-11.4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Tacitus, Annals, 13.15 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 13.15.  Perturbed by her attitude, and faced with the approach of the day on which Britannicus completed his fourteenth year, Nero began to revolve, now his mother's proclivity to violence, now the character of his rival, — lately revealed by a test which, trivial as it was, had gained him wide sympathy. During the festivities of the Saturnalia, while his peers in age were varying their diversions by throwing dice for a king, the lot had fallen upon Nero. On the others he imposed various orders, not likely to put them to the blush: but, when he commanded Britannicus to rise, advance into the centre, and strike up a song — this, in the hope of turning into derision a boy who knew little of sober, much less of drunken, society — his victim firmly began a poem hinting at his expulsion from his father's house and throne. His bearing awoke a pity the more obvious that night and revelry had banished dissimulation. Nero, once aware of the feeling aroused, redoubled his hatred; and with Agrippina's threats becoming instant, as he had no grounds for a criminal charge against his brother and dared not openly order his execution, he tried secrecy and gave orders for poison to be prepared, his agent being Julius Pollio, tribune of a praetorian cohort, and responsible for the detention of the condemned poisoner Locusta, whose fame as a criminal stood high. For that no one about the person of Britannicus should regard either right or loyalty was a point long since provided for. The first dose the boy received from his own tutors, but his bowels were opened, and he passed the drug, which either lacked potency or contained a dilution to prevent immediate action. Nero, however, impatient of so much leisure in crime, threatened the tribune and ordered the execution of the poisoner, on the ground that, with their apprehensions of scandal and their preparations for defence, they were delaying his release from anxiety. They now promised that death should be as abrupt as if it were the summary work of steel; and a potion — its rapidity guaranteed by a private test of the ingredients — was concocted hard by the Caesar's bedroom.
4. Manilius, Astronomica, 1.794-1.795, 1.798-1.803

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subject	book bibliographic info
allegory, allegoresis, allegorization, allegorical (exegesis, image, interpretation, reading), and cicero	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183
apotheosis	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183, 184
cato the younger	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183
claudius	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
debate, space for	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
deification	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
hades\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
heaven\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
hercules	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
humour	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
journey, journey to heaven	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
lucian\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
menippean literature\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
nero	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 184; Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
pompey	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183
saturnalia	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 59
seneca\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62
soul	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183
suicide'	Konstan and Garani, The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014) 183
traditions\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 62