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64. "Therefore, even if I granted your contention as to the existence of divination—and this I will
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never do—still, you must realize that it would be
impossible for us to find a diviner. Then what do
the gods mean by sending us in our dreams visions
which we cannot understand ourselves and which
we cannot find anybody to interpret for us? If
the gods send us these unintelligible and inexplicable
dream-messages they are acting as Carthaginians
and Spaniards would if they were to address our
Senate in their own vernacular without the aid
of an interpreter.
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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