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Now what Marius do you think it was I saw? His
'likeness' or 'phantom,'1 I suppose—at least that
is what Democritus thinks. Whence did the
'phantom' come? He would have it that
'phantoms ' emanate from material bodies and from
actual forms. Then, it was the body of Marius from
which my ' phantom' came? ' No,' says Democritus,
' but from his body that was.' So that 'phantom' of
Marius was pursuing me to the plains of Atina?
' Oh, but the universe is full of “phantoms”; no
picture of anything can be formed in the mind except
as the result of the impact of “phantoms.”
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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