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And so, after giving examples of true prophecies
through frenzy and dreams, Cratippus usually concludes his argument in this way:
"'Though without eyes it is impossible to perform
the act and function of sight, and though the eyes
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sometimes cannot perform their appointed function,
yet when a person has even once so employed his
eyes as to see things as they are, he has a realization of what correct vision is. Likewise, therefore,
although without the power of divination it is impossible for the act and function of divining to exist,
and though one with that power may sometimes be
mistaken and may make erroneous prophecies, yet
it is enough to establish the existence of divination
that a single event has been so clearly foretold as
to exclude the hypothesis of chance. But there are
many such instances; therefore, the existence of
divination must be conceded.'
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