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"Therefore it is not strange that diviners have
a presentiment of things that exist nowhere in the
material world: for all things ' are,' though, from
the standpoint of' time,' they are not present. As in
seeds there inheres the germ of those things which
the seeds produce, so in causes are stored the future
events whose coming is foreseen by reason or conjecture, or is discerned by the soul when inspired by
frenzy, or when it is set free by sleep. Persons
familiar with the rising, setting, and revolutions of
the sun, moon, and other celestial bodies, can tell long
in advance where any one of these bodies will be at
a given time. And the same thing may be said of
men who, for a long period of time, have studied and
noted the course of facts and the connexion of events,
for they always know what the future will be; or, if
that is putting it too strongly, they know in a majority
of cases; or, if that will not be conceded either, then,
surely, they sometimes know what the future will be.
[p. 365]
These and a few other arguments of the same kind
for the existence of divination are derived from Fate.
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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