Crossword-Solution: APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
We have 1 clue for the answer “APOCOLOCYNTOSIS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Senecan political satire | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "APOCOLOCYNTOSIS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
10 +1
New Suggestion for "APOCOLOCYNTOSIS"
Related word tools
Sentences with APOCOLOCYNTOSIS (2)
But the work is modelled on the Menippean satires of Varro, and belongs to the same class of writing as the _Apocolocyntosis_ of Seneca.
Such an one, dying, may therefore properly say, with Empedocles, 'Farewell! a god immortal now am I.'" The expiring Vespasian exclaimed, "I shall soon be a god."8 Mure says that the doctrine of apotheosis belonged to the Graco Pelasgic race through all their history.9 Seneca severely satirizes the ceremony, and the popular belief which upheld it, in an elaborate lampoon called Apocolocyntosis, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).