Dion Cassius (lx, 35) says that Seneca composed an [Greek: apokolokuntosis] or Pumpkinification of Claudius after his death, the title being a parody of the usual [Greek: apotheosis]; but this title is not given in the MSS. of the Ludus de Morte Claudii, nor is there anything in the piece which suits the title very well.

Translations and helps: The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius, by A.P. Ball (with introduction, notes, and translations): New York: Columbia University Press; London, Macmillan, 1902.

The principal entrance to the church is at the western end, where there is a pretty gabled and balconied porchway, elaborated with carvings, some of which are being executed at the expense of patriotic youths, who pay for a yard or two each, as they are in the humour, and expect an apotheosis afterwards.

Elene and the Dream of the Road, also probably written by Cynewulf, are an Anglo-Saxon apotheosis of the cross.

Comus is an immortal apotheosis of virtue.

In 1791, Mirabeau was interred here with great pomp, and in the same year took place, the celebrated apotheoses (deifications) of Voltaire and Rousseau.

This must be the apotheosis, the moment when Grandmother Felicite, with her silver trowel, laid the first stone of the monument to the glory of the Rougons.

In recent years, since the publication of Dr. John Brown's Rab and his Friends (1858), the dog has approached an apotheosis.

A notable instance of this is found in his criticism of those stories most dear to the Roman heartthe stories of the birth and apotheosis of Romulus.

We feel it, that is all!fulgurant moments, which throw, as it were, a flash of lightning upon our destinies, like those meteors which shine forth from time to time in the heavens, and of which none can say what their purple signifies, whether it be a cataclysm or an apotheosis.

THE DUCHESS: "So I, too, believe." THE ABBÉ: "We must take care, then, that it be an apotheosis.

Let it be that Dionysus himself was only the apotheosis of victorious humanity.

I am inclined, however, to think it more probable that Muhammed had heard of Mariolatry and of the "mother of God," a title which then was a highly popular catchword, and that the apotheosis of Jesus was known to him and also the doctrine of the Trinity by name.

The first represents Fortitude, the second Temperance, the third Justice, in the fourth, which is over the communion table, is the apotheosis of a child, after the Rev. Mr. Peters, the fifth represents Hope, the sixth Charity, and the seventh Prudence.

"But with her clubs and her people she is San Francisco, which to my mind comes near being the apotheosis of praise," he adds.

Some have filled their skies with beings as little aerial as possible, or apotheoses of the Virgin and sundry saints.

She made of herself an embodiment, an apotheosis, rather, of poetic woeand so, roused to emulation her mother's passion for pose.

Apotheosis of Milton, i. 140. APPARITIONS.

GUTHRIE, William, account of him, i. 116, 117, n. 2; Johnson's character of him, ii. 52; Apotheosis of Milton, i. 140; Debates, i. 116, 118; Duhalde's China, translates, iv.

SHEEAN, VINCENT. Apotheosis.

As for the lover's poem, what is it but the grossest sensualism, the usual African apotheosis of fat?

He drank freely and his game was the apotheosis of bumble-puppy.

Of all the representations consecrated to the glory of the Virgin, none have been more popular, more multiplied through every form of art, and more admirably treated, than her death and apotheosis.

The two angels, or rather genii, bearing torches on each side, impart to the whole something of the air of a heathen apotheosis.

When Ingres painted his vast 'Apotheosis of Homer,' he represented, grouped round the central throne, all the great poets of the ancient and modern worlds, with a single exceptionShakespeare.