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Tu vates Boeotios
credis Lebadiae vidisse ex gallorum gallinaceorum
cantu victoriam esse Thebanorum, quia galli victi silere solerent, canere victores. Hoc igitur per gallinas
Iuppiter tantae civitati signum dabat? An illae aves,
nisi cum vicerunt, canere non solent? At tum canebant nec vicerant. Id enim est, inquies, ostentum.
Magnum vero! quasi pisces, non galli cecinerint! Quod
autem est tempus, quo illi non cantent, vel nocturnum vel diurnum? Quodsi victores alacritate et quasi
laetitia ad canendum excitantur, potuit accidisse alia
quoque laetitia, qua ad cantum moverentur.
De Divinatione. M. Tullius Cicero. C. F. W. Müller. Leipzig. Teubner. 1915.
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