[260] Accipere omen is the ordinary phrase for acknowledging and welcoming an omen: Livy 1. 7, Cic. de Div. 1. 46, &c. (Forc.) Whether however ‘accipio deos’ could stand as = ‘I welcome the divine sign’ may perhaps be doubted: it is therefore perhaps better with Wagn. to take ‘accipio’ by itself. He comp. Ov. M. 7. 620, “Accipio, sintque ista precor felicia mentis Signa tuae.” “Ut te . . . Accipio adgnoscoque libens,” says Evander to Aeneas 8. 155.
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