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41. "Nor is the practice of divination disregarded even among uncivilized tribes, if indeed
there are Druids1 in Gaul—and there are, for I
knew one of them myself, Divitiacus, the Aeduan,
your guest and eulogist. He claimed to have that
knowledge of nature which the Greeks call ' physiologia,' and he used to make predictions, sometimes
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by means of augury and sometimes by means of
conjecture. Among the Persians the augurs and
diviners are the magi, who assemble regularly in a
sacred place for practice and consultation, just as
formerly you augurs used to do on the Nones.
1 Cf. Caes. B.G. vi. 13; Pomp. Mel. iii. 2; Strabo iv p. 302.
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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