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57. "Moreover, divination finds another and a
positive support in nature, which teaches us how
great is the power of the soul when it is divorced
from the bodily senses, as it is especially in sleep, '
and in times of frenzy or inspiration. For, as the
souls of the gods, without the intervention of eyes
or ears or tongue, understand each other and
what each one thinks (hence men, even when
they offer silent prayers and vows, have no doubt
that the gods understand them), so the souls of
men, when released by sleep from bodily chains,
or when stirred by inspiration and delivered up
to their own impulses, see things that they cannot
see when they are mingled with the body.
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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