De Divinatione
M. Tullius Cicero
' Romulus lactens fulmine ictus; urbi igitur periculum ostenditur, ei quam ille condidit.'
' The statue of the infant Romulus,' you observe, ' was struck by a thunderbolt; hence danger was thereby predicted to the city which he founded.'
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Tullius Cicero: Volume XX. On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 154, translated by W.A. Falconer, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1923, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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