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When I send a slave to Aequimaelium to bring me
a lamb for a sacrifice and he brings me the lamb
which has entrails suited to the exigencies of my
particular case, it was not chance, I suppose, but a
god that led the slave to that particular lamb! If
you say that in this case too chance is, as it were,
a sort of lot in accordance with the divine will, then
I am sorry that our Stoic friends have given the Epicureans so great an opportunity for laughter, for
you know how much fun they make of statements
like that.
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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