M. Tullius Cicero, Divination, Book II, section 132

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[132] Besides, what purpose is served by dark and enigmatic dreams? Surely the gods ought to want us to understand the advice they give us for our good. 'Oh!' but you retort,' Are poets and natural philosophers never obscure?' Indeed they are: Euphorion¹ is even too obscure; but Homer is not.

1 Clement of Alexandria classes him in this respect with Callimachus and Lycophron.

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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