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1. Cicero, On Divination, 1.13, 1.23, 2.21 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.13. Mirari licet, quae sint animadversa a medicis herbarum genera, quae radicum ad morsus bestiarum, ad oculorum morbos, ad vulnera, quorum vim atque naturam ratio numquam explicavit, utilitate et ars est et inventor probatus. Age ea, quae quamquam ex alio genere sunt, tamen divinationi sunt similiora, videamus: Atque etiam ventos praemonstrat saepe futuros Inflatum mare, cum subito penitusque tumescit, Saxaque cana salis niveo spumata liquore Tristificas certant Neptuno reddere voces, Aut densus stridor cum celso e vertice montis Ortus adaugescit scopulorum saepe repulsus. Atque his rerum praesensionibus Prognostica tua referta sunt. Quis igitur elicere causas praesensionum potest? etsi video Boe+thum Stoicum esse conatum, qui hactenus aliquid egit, ut earum rationem rerum explicaret, quae in mari caelove fierent. 1.23. Quid? quaeris, Carneades, cur haec ita fiant aut qua arte perspici possint? Nescire me fateor, evenire autem te ipsum dico videre. Casu, inquis. Itane vero? quicquam potest casu esse factum, quod omnes habet in se numeros veritatis? Quattuor tali iacti casu Venerium efficiunt; num etiam centum Venerios, si quadringentos talos ieceris, casu futuros putas? Aspersa temere pigmenta in tabula oris liniamenta efficere possunt; num etiam Veneris Coae pulchritudinem effici posse aspersione fortuita putas? Sus rostro si humi A litteram inpresserit, num propterea suspicari poteris Andromacham Ennii ab ea posse describi? Fingebat Carneades in Chiorum lapicidinis saxo diffisso caput extitisse Panisci; credo, aliquam non dissimilem figuram, sed certe non talem, ut eam factam a Scopa diceres. Sic enim se profecto res habet, ut numquam perfecte veritatem casus imitetur. 2.21. nulla igitur est divinatio. Quodsi fatum fuit bello Punico secundo exercitum populi Romani ad lacum Trasumennum interire, num id vitari potuit, si Flaminius consul iis signis iisque auspiciis, quibus pugnare prohibebatur, paruisset? Certe potuit. Aut igitur non fato interiit exercitus, aut, si fato (quod certe vobis ita dicendum est), etiamsi obtemperasset auspiciis, idem eventurum fuisset; mutari enim fata non possunt. Ubi est igitur ista divinatio Stoicorum? quae, si fato omnia fiunt, nihil nos admonere potest, ut cautiores simus; quoquo enim modo nos gesserimus, fiet tamen illud, quod futurum est; sin autem id potest flecti, nullum est fatum; ita ne divinatio quidem, quoniam ea rerum futurarum est. Nihil autem est pro certo futurum, quod potest aliqua procuratione accidere ne fiat. 1.13. We may wonder at the variety of herbs that have been observed by physicians, of roots that are good for the bites of wild beasts, for eye affections, and for wounds, and though reason has never explained their force and nature, yet through their usefulness you have won approval for the medical art and for their discoverer.But come, let us consider instances, which although outside the category of divination, yet resemble it very closely:The heaving sea oft warns of coming storms,When suddenly its depths begin to swell;And hoary rocks, oerspread with snowy brine,To the sea, in boding tones, attempt reply;Or when from lofty mountain-peak upspringsA shrilly whistling wind, which stronger growsWith each repulse by hedge of circling cliffs.[8] Your book, Prognostics, is full of such warning signs, but who can fathom their causes? And yet I see that the Stoic Boëthus has attempted to do so and has succeeded to the extent of explaining the phenomena of sea and sky. 1.13. And while it is difficult, perhaps, to apply this principle of nature to explain that kind of divination which we call artificial, yet Posidonius, who digs into the question as deep as one can, thinks that nature gives certain signs of future events. Thus Heraclides of Pontus records that it is the custom of the people of Ceos, once each year, to make a careful observation of the rising of the Dog-star and from such observation to conjecture whether the ensuing year will be healthy or pestilential. For if the star rises dim and, as it were enveloped in a fog, this indicates a thick and heavy atmosphere, which will give off very unwholesome vapours; but if the star appears clear and brilliant, this is a sign that the atmosphere is light and pure and, as a consequence, will be conducive to good health. 1.23. But what? You ask, Carneades, do you, why these things so happen, or by what rules they may be understood? I confess that I do not know, but that they do so fall out I assert that you yourself see. Mere accidents, you say. Now, really, is that so? Can anything be an accident which bears upon itself every mark of truth? Four dice are cast and a Venus throw results — that is chance; but do you think it would be chance, too, if in one hundred casts you made one hundred Venus throws? It is possible for paints flung at random on a canvasc to form the outlines of a face; but do you imagine that an accidental scattering of pigments could produce the beautiful portrait of Venus of Cos? Suppose that a hog should form the letter A on the ground with its snout; is that a reason for believing that it would write out Enniuss poem The Andromache?Carneades used to have a story that once in the Chian quarries when a stone was split open there appeared the head of the infant god Pan; I grant that the figure may have borne some resemblance to the god, but assuredly the resemblance was not such that you could ascribe the work to a Scopas. For it is undeniably true that no perfect imitation of a thing was ever made by chance. [14] 2.21. Again, if it was the will of Fate that the Roman army should perish at Lake Trasimenus in the Second Punic War, could that result have been avoided if the consul Flaminius had obeyed the signs and the auspices which forbade his joining battle? Assuredly not. Therefore, either the army did not perish by the will of Fate, or, if it did (and you are certainly bound as a Stoic to say that it did), the same result would have happened even if the auspices had been obeyed; for the decrees of Fate are unchangeable. Then what becomes of that vaunted divination of you Stoics? For if all things happen by Fate, it does us no good to be warned to be on our guard, since that which is to happen, will happen regardless of what we do. But if that which is to be can be turned aside, there is no such thing as Fate; so, too, there is no such thing as divination — since divination deals with things that are going to happen. But nothing is certain to happen which there is some means of dealing with so as to prevent its happening. [9]
2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.146-1.216, 1.224, 1.227-1.231, 1.249-1.397, 1.418-1.583, 1.599-1.634, 1.812-1.816, 2.75-2.79, 2.184-2.293, 2.333-2.380, 2.443, 2.478-2.568, 2.701-2.729, 2.991-2.1022, 2.1116-2.1117, 2.1130, 3.31-3.33, 3.94-3.101, 3.105, 3.110, 3.116-3.120, 3.128-3.129, 3.741-3.753, 3.945, 3.978-3.1023, 4.26-4.28, 4.489-4.495, 4.732-4.743, 5.129, 5.783-5.854, 5.865-5.870, 5.883-5.906, 5.1058, 5.1233-5.1235, 5.1457 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Juvenal, Satires, 7.197-7.198 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.35, 7.74-7.75 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Suetonius, Augustus, 72 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Vergil, Georgics, 1.1-1.23, 1.39, 1.60-1.63, 1.125-1.147, 1.161-1.166, 1.446-1.447, 1.512-1.514, 2.149, 3.3-3.8, 3.115-3.117, 3.258-3.263, 3.266-3.268, 3.343-3.344, 3.347-3.383, 4.149-4.152, 4.170-4.175, 4.560-4.562

1.1. What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star 1.2. Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod 1.3. Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; 1.4. What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof 1.5. of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;— 1.6. Such are my themes. O universal light 1.7. Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year 1.8. Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild 1.9. If by your bounty holpen earth once changed 1.10. Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear 1.11. And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift 1.12. The draughts of Achelous; and ye Faun 1.13. To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Faun 1.14. And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing. 1.15. And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first 1.16. Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke 1.17. Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom 1.18. Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes 1.19. The fertile brakes of placeName key= 1.20. Thy native forest and Lycean lawns 1.21. Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love 1.22. of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear 1.23. And help, O lord of placeName key= 1.39. Sole dread of seamen, till far placeName key= 1.60. And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine. 1.61. That land the craving farmer's prayer fulfils 1.62. Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt; 1.63. Ay, that's the land whose boundless harvest-crop 1.125. Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop 1.126. Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy; 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.135. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls 1.136. Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones 1.137. And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? 1.138. Or why of him, who lest the heavy ear 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.146. Sweat steaming vapour? 1.147. But no whit the more 1.161. They gathered, and the earth of her own will 1.162. All things more freely, no man bidding, bore. 1.163. He to black serpents gave their venom-bane 1.164. And bade the wolf go prowl, and ocean toss; 1.165. Shooed from the leaves their honey, put fire away 1.166. And curbed the random rivers running wine 1.446. That bring the frost, the Sire of all himself 1.447. Ordained what warnings in her monthly round 1.512. Towering, and Scylla for the purple lock 1.513. Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wing 1.514. The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable 2.149. Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed 3.3. You, woods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside 3.4. Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song 3.5. Are now waxed common. of harsh Eurystheus who 3.6. The story knows not, or that praiseless king 3.7. Busiris, and his altars? or by whom 3.8. Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young 3.115. The heights of 3.116. Even him, when sore disease or sluggish eld 3.117. Now saps his strength, pen fast at home, and spare 3.258. Whether on steed or steer thy choice be set. 3.259. Ay, therefore 'tis they banish bulls afar 3.260. To solitary pastures, or behind 3.261. Some mountain-barrier, or broad streams beyond 3.262. Or else in plenteous stalls pen fast at home. 3.263. For, even through sight of her, the female waste 3.266. With her sweet charms can lovers proud compel 3.267. To battle for the conquest horn to horn. 3.268. In Sila's forest feeds the heifer fair 3.343. By shepherds truly named hippomanes 3.344. Hippomanes, fell stepdames oft have culled 3.347. As point to point our charmed round we trace. 3.348. Enough of herds. This second task remains 3.349. The wool-clad flocks and shaggy goats to treat. 3.350. Here lies a labour; hence for glory look 3.351. Brave husbandmen. Nor doubtfully know 3.352. How hard it is for words to triumph here 3.353. And shed their lustre on a theme so slight: 3.354. But I am caught by ravishing desire 3.355. Above the lone Parnassian steep; I love 3.356. To walk the heights, from whence no earlier track 3.357. Slopes gently downward to Castalia's spring. 3.358. Now, awful Pales, strike a louder tone. 3.359. First, for the sheep soft pencotes I decree 3.360. To browse in, till green summer's swift return; 3.361. And that the hard earth under them with straw 3.362. And handfuls of the fern be littered deep 3.363. Lest chill of ice such tender cattle harm 3.364. With scab and loathly foot-rot. Passing thence 3.365. I bid the goats with arbute-leaves be stored 3.366. And served with fresh spring-water, and their pen 3.367. Turned southward from the blast, to face the sun 3.368. of winter, when Aquarius' icy beam 3.369. Now sinks in showers upon the parting year. 3.370. These too no lightlier our protection claim 3.371. Nor prove of poorer service, howsoe'er 3.372. Milesian fleeces dipped in Tyrian red 3.373. Repay the barterer; these with offspring teem 3.374. More numerous; these yield plenteous store of milk: 3.375. The more each dry-wrung udder froths the pail 3.376. More copious soon the teat-pressed torrents flow. 3.377. Ay, and on Cinyps' bank the he-goats too 3.378. Their beards and grizzled chins and bristling hair 3.379. Let clip for camp-use, or as rugs to wrap 3.380. Seafaring wretches. But they browse the wood 3.381. And summits of Lycaeus, and rough briers 3.382. And brakes that love the highland: of themselve 3.383. Right heedfully the she-goats homeward troop 4.149. Makes the trim garden smile; of placeName key= 4.150. Whose roses bloom and fade and bloom again; 4.151. How endives glory in the streams they drink 4.152. And green banks in their parsley, and how the gourd 4.170. With unbought plenty heaped his board on high. 4.171. He was the first to cull the rose in spring 4.172. He the ripe fruits in autumn; and ere yet 4.173. Winter had ceased in sullen ire to rive 4.174. The rocks with frost, and with her icy bit 4.175. Curb in the running waters, there was he 4.560. Forestalled him with the fetters; he nathless 4.561. All unforgetful of his ancient craft 4.562. Transforms himself to every wondrous thing


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adynata Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117, 124, 204, 223, 224
allegory Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
amazons Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
amor,and metamorphosis Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
amor,in georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223, 224
anachronism Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
animals,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
animals Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124, 223, 224
animus,in lucretiuss epicurean theory of sight Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
atomism,atomists Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
atomism Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
augustus Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
birth Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
body-environment approach (bea),in lucretius epicurean theory of sight Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
body (human),and knowledge acquisition/cognition Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
causation,cause Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
centaurs Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
chance Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149
child Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
chimera Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149
cicero Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149
claudius Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
cognition Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
conopas Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
deucalion Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
dwarf Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
earth Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
emotion Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
epicureanism Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223
epicurus,on nature and the self Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
formulae Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223
giants,glaucus,mares of Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
giants Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124, 204
gigandet,a. Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149
gods,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
golden age Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
head Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
hesiod Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
heuretai Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
hieros gamos Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
horses Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223
human Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
jupiter Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
laudes italiae Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
libya Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
lucretius,animals in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
lucretius,culture-history in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
lucretius,formulae in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223
lucretius,laws of nature in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204, 224
lucretius,myth in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
lucretius,natura in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
lucretius Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149; Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
metamorphosis Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
metempsychosis Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223
mind,in lucretius epicurean theory of sight Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
mirabilia,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 223, 224
monster' Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 219
monsters Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124, 204, 224
myth,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
myth,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117, 124
natura Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
pastoral Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
perception,lucretius epicurean theory of perception/the senses Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
pindar Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
plague Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
praise of spring Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
remythologization Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
reproduction,epicurean theory of Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 175
roman religion/polytheism Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
scythia Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 224
seeds Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149
senses,in lucretius epicurean theory of sight Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
senses,lucretius epicurean theory of the senses Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
servius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
storms Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
trees Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 204
underworld Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
virgil,and hesiod Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 117
virgil,reception of lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 124
zoogony Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 149