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“
[149]
Quam ob rem, ut religio propaganda etiam est,
quae est iuncta cum cognitione naturae, sic superstitionis stirpes omnes eiiciendae.1 Instat enim et
urget et, quo te cumque verteris, persequitur, sive
tu vatem sive tu omen audieris, sive immolaris sive
avem aspexeris, si Chaldaeum, si haruspicem videris,
si fulserit, si tonuerit, si tactum aliquid erit de
caelo, si ostenti simile natum factumve quippiam;
[p. 538]
quorum necesse est plerumque aliquid eveniat, ut
numquam liceat quieta mente consistere.
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1 eiiciendae MSS.; eligendae Madv., Müller.
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