Who, for their own gain, uphold opinions that are false,[p. 321] but they were eminent men of the noblest type and foretold the future by means of augural signs. In speaking of Tiresias, even when in the infernal regions, Homer says that he alone was wise, that the rest were mere wandering shadows.1 As for Amphiaraus, his reputation in Greece was such that he was honoured as a god, and oracular responses were sought in the place where he was buried.
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Amphilochus
and Mopsus were kings of Argos, but they were
augurs too, and they founded Greek cities on
the coasts of Cilicia. And even before them were
Amphiaraus and Tiresias. They were no lowly and
unknown men, nor were they like the persons
described by Ennius,
1 Cf. Homer, Od. x. 492.
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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