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"And what of those other instances? As when,
for example, the statue of Apollo at Cumae and
that of Victory at Capua dripped with sweat; when
that unlucky prodigy, the hermaphrodite, was born;
when the river Atratus1 ran with blood; when
there were showers frequently of stone, sometimes
of blood, occasionally of earth and even of milk;
and finally, when lightning struck the statue of the
Centaur on the Capitoline hill, the gates and some
people on the Aventine and the temples of Castor
and Pollux at Tusculum and of Piety at Rome—
in each of these cases did not the soothsayers give
prophetic responses which were afterwards fulfilled? And were not these same prophecies found
in the Sibylline books?
1 Nothing is known of this river.
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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