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"Still another instance of conjectural divination
occurred in the case of Dionysius, a little while
before lie began to reign. He was travelling through
the Leontine district, and led his horse down into a
river. The horse was engulfed in a whirlpool and
disappeared. Dionysius did his utmost to extricate
him but in vain and, so Philistus writes, went away
greatly troubled. When he had gone on a short
distance he heard a whinny, looked back and, to his
joy, saw his horse eagerly following and with a
swarm of bees in its mane. The sequel of this
portent was that Dionysius began to reign within
a few days.
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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