[11]
“Really, my dear Quintus,” said I, “I always
have time for philosophy. Moreover, since there is
nothing else at this time that I can do with pleasure,1
I am all the more eager to hear what you think
about divination.”
“There is, I assure you,” said he, "nothing new
or original in my views; for those which I adopt
are not only very old, but they are endorsed by the
consent of all peoples and nations. There are two
kinds of divination: the first is dependent on art,
the other on nature.
1 Cicero here refers to the deplorable condition of Roman politics and his exclusion from the courts and from any leading part in the government.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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