#apocolocyntosis

[caeruleumvexillum]

New Apocolocyntosis cover just dropped.

(I'm so sorry @quidamscriptor)

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guillotine

αποκολοκύντωσις

Voting ended onAug 12, 2023

guillotine (French, English) (French) /ɡi.jɔ.tin/ (English) /ˈɡijəˌtin/ A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed.

αποκολοκύντωσις (Greek, Latin) apocolocyntosis /a.po.ko.loˈcyn.to.sis/ pumpkinification; the act of turning into a pumpkin or other gourd vegetable. Invented by analogy with “apotheosis” (turning into a god; deification) by Seneca the Younger to satirize the Roman emperor Claudius. Also useful when talking about Cinderella’s coach.

[catilinas]

Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii

[haec-est-fides]

Phoebus is present: glad he is to sing a merry song; Now helps the work, now full of hope upon the harp doth play; The Sisters listen to the song that charms their toil away. They praise their brother's melodies, and still the spindles run, Till more than man's allotted span the busy hands have spun. Then Phoebus says, "O sister Fates! I pray take none away, But suffer this one life to be longer than mortal day. Like me in face and lovely grace, like me in voice and song, He'll bid the laws at length speak out that have been dumb so long, Will give unto the weary world years prosperous and bright. Like as the daystar from on high scatters the stars of night, As, when the stars return again, clear Hesper brings his light, Or as the ruddy dawn drives out the dark, and brings the day, As the bright sun looks on the world, and speeds along its way His rising car from morning's gates: so Caesar doth arise, So Nero shows his face to Rome before the people's eyes, His bright and shining countenance illumines all the air, While down upon his graceful neck fall rippling waves of hair."

Apocolocyntosis, Seneca (W.H.D. Rouse, trans.)

[finelythreadedsky]

horam non possum certam tibi dicere (facilius inter philosophos quam inter horologia conveniet) - I cannot tell you the exact hour (it is easier to reach agreement among philosophers than among clocks)

Seneca the Younger (?), Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii 2

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αποκολοκύντωσις

ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ

Voting ended onSep 1, 2023

αποκολοκύντωσις (Greek, Latin) apocolocyntosis /a.po.ko.loˈcyn.to.sis/ pumpkinification; the act of turning into a pumpkin or other gourd vegetable. Invented by analogy with “apotheosis” (turning into a god; deification) by Seneca the Younger to satirize the Roman emperor Claudius. Also useful when talking about Cinderella’s coach.

ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ (Inuktitut) iktsuarpok /iktsuaʁpuk/ to go outside repeatedly to check for someone while waiting for them to arrive.

[catilinas]

you know what? fuck you *juridicises your underworld*

[catilinas]

okay :)