‘He wants to become a god. Isn’t he satisfied that he has a temple 
in Britain; that the barbarians worship him and beseech him as a god 
that they may find him a merciful madman?’’ (A. P. Ball ed., p. 
142f., 8) 
Allusions to his physical disabilities: 
66 . e . ° 
tamen si necesse fuerit auctorem producere, quaerito ab eo qui 
Drusillam euntem in caelum vidit: idem Claudium vidisse se dicet iter 
+ ° ‘ . . . 
facientem ‘non passibus aequis’.’’ (I, 2) 
tha 
Still, if I must produce my authority, apply to the man who saw 
Drusilla going heavenward ; he will say he saw Claudius limping along 
in the same direction.’’ (A. P. Ball ed., p. 132, 1) 
*“nuntiatur Iovi venisse quendam bonae staturae, bene canum; nes- 
cio quid illum minari, assidue enim caput movere; pedem dextrum 
trahere. quaesisse se cuius nationis esset; respondisse nescio quid 
perturbato sono et voce confusa; non intellegere se linguam eius, nec 
Graecum esse nec Romanum nec ullius gentis notae.’’ (V, 2) 
“The news was brought to Jupiter that somebody had come, a 
rather tall man, quite gray-headed; that he was threatening some- 
thing or other, for he kept shaking his head; and that he limped 
with his right foot. The messenger said he had asked of what nation 
he was, but his answer was mumbled in some kind of an incoherent 
noise; he didn’t recognize the man’s language, but he wasn’t either 
Greek or Roman or of any known race.’” (A. P. Ball ed., p. 138, 5) 
‘“‘tum Hercules primo aspectu sane perturbatus est, ut qui etiam 
non omnia monstra timuerit. ut vidit novi generis faciem, insolitum 
incessum, vocem nullius terrestris animalis sed qualis esse marinis 
beluis solet, raucam et implicatam, putavit sibi tertium decimum la- 
borem venisse. diligentius intuenti visus est quasi homo.’’ (V, 3) 
*“Herkules at the first sight was a good deal disturbed, even though 
he was one who didn’t fear any sort of monsters. When he beheld 
the aspect of this unknown specimen, its extraordinary gait, its voice 
belonging to no earthly creature but more like that of the monsters 
of the deep, hoarse and articulate, he thought that a thirteenth labor 
had come to him. When he looked more carefully, however, it ap- 
peared to be a man.”* (A. P. Ball ed., p. 138f., 5) 
ee ° . ° e - . 
quid nune profatu vocis incerto sonas? quae patria, quae gens 
mobile eduxit caput?’’ (VII, 2) 
**What’s that, that in a muffled voice you’re trying to say? Where 
is the land or race to own your shaky head?’’ (A.P.Balled., p. 140, 7) 
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