KoAoKwTwots, cioé non indiamento, ma in... diotimento: come se, 
per riprendere le parole di Dione Cassio, aoxoAokivtwots potesse es- 
sere un sinonimo di dzafavarwns (i] termine droéoo1s & ignoto a Dione 
Cassio).’’ (Russo, p. 132.) (9) 
9 
The artificial word ‘‘indiotimento’’, in our view, fairly 
accurately translates Apocolocyntosis into Italian with 
regard to both its form and its content. Russo’s inter- 
pretation of the title not only has the advantage of being 
philologically coherent, it is also corroborated by the 
analysis of the text. In the following, we have listed 
those passages from the Apocolocyntosis, where Claudius 
is either explicitly designated as a fool or madman, or 
where reference is made to his physical disabilities as an 
expression of his madness. 
Passages from the Apocolocyntosis alluding to Claudius’ 
mental deficiencies: 
6 a * . . oe . . 
ego scio me liberum factum, ex quo suum diem obiit ille, qui 
verum proverbium fecerat aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportere. ”’ (I, 1) 
‘‘T know I have been free to do as I like since the day when he 
died who made the proverb true: One must be born either king or 
fool.’’? (A. P. Ball ed., p. 132, 1) 
‘‘hemo enim unquam illum natum putavit.’’ (III, 2) 
ee . . . 
. . . for nobody ever made any account of his being born.’’ 
(A.P. Ball ed., p. 134, 3) (10) 
“‘haec ait et turpi convolvens stamina fuso abrupit stolidae regalia 
tempora vitae.’’ (IV, 1) 
**Thus having spoken she wound up the thread on his spindle neg- 
lected, breaking off the royal days of his stupid existence.’’ A. P. 
Ball ed., p. 135, 4) 
‘“haec satis animose et fortiter, nihilo minus mentis suae non est 
et timet pwpov zAnynv.’’ (VII, 3) 
‘These things he said with spirit, and boldly enough. All the 
same, he was inwardly a good deal afraid of the madman’s blow. 
(A.P. Ball ed., p. 141, 7) 
‘‘deus fieri vult: parum est quod templum in Britannia habet, quod 
hune barbari colunt et ut deum orant Popov evAarov Tuxetv?’’ (VIII, 3) 
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