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Stoic doctrine of omens (1)

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 		Keywords
astrology
omens
Rome
Stoicism
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Cicero, De Divinatione 1.117-118:
It is not Stoic doctrine that the gods concern themselves with individual cracks in the liver or individual bird-songs … Their view is that the world was from its beginning set up in such a way that certain things should be preceded by certain signs, some in entrails, others in birds, others in lightning, others in portents, others in stars, others in dream impressions, others in frenzied utterances. Those who properly perceive these are rarely deceived.

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Cicero, De Divinatione 1.117-118

Bibliography

Barton 1994, 35Barton, Tamsyn. Ancient Astrology. London, New York: Routledge 1994.

Amar Annus


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