Note 127 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
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Cic. de Leg. ii. 13, 32 (on the question whether auspices were merely directed to the utilitas of the state, or formed a true method of divination) “si enim deos esse concedimus ... et eosdem hominum consulere generi, et posse nobis signa rerum futurarum ostendere; non video cur esse divinationem negem.”