Apocolocyntosis Sect. 6

And he would have imposed upon barely cunning Hercules, if Fever had not been there, who alone had come with him with her shrine left behind: she had left all the other gods at Rome. "That man," she said, "speaks pure lies. I, who have lived with him for so many years, say this to you: he was born at Lugudunum, you see a municipate of Munatius. That I say to you, he was born at the sixteenth milestone from Vienna, a full Gaul. And thus because a Gaul ought to do it, he seized Rome. I relate this to you that he was born at Lugudunum, where Licinus ruled for many years. However you, who have trampled on more places than any long-distance mule driver, ought to know that there are many miles between Xanthus and Rhodanus." At this point Claudius grew red and was angry with as much a murmur as he could muster. What he said no one understood. He however was ordering Fever to be lead away. With that gesture of his loose hand, with which he was accustomed to behead men, firm enough at this alone, he had ordered that her neck be cut off. You would think that all were his freedmen: so much did no one care about him.