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4. neque enim adsentior eis, qui nuper haec
disserere coeperunt, cum corporibus simul animos
interire atque omnia morte deleri. plus apud me
antiquorum auctoritas valet, vel nostrorum maiorum,
qui mortuis tam religiosa iura tribuerunt, quod non
fecissent, profecto, si nihil ad eos pertinere arbi-
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trarentur, vel eorum qui in hac terra fuerunt magnamque Graeciam, quae nunc quidem deleta est,
tum florebat, institutis et praeceptis suis erudierunt,
vel eius, qui Apollinis oraculo sapientissimus est
iudicatus, qui1 non tum hoc tum illud, ut in plerisque,
sed idem semper, animos hominum esse divinos
eisque, cum ex corpore excessissent, reditum in
caelum patere optimoque et iustissimo cuique expeditissimum.
1 qui MSS.; °qui Müller; cui Halm., Bait., Lahm.
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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