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It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure… — Cicero

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It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

In the original Latin

Sed ita a principio inchoatum esse mundum, ut certis rebus certa signa praecurrerent.

Cicero
Concerning Divination · 44 BC
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Divinatione [Concerning Divination]. c. 44 BC, bk. 1, ch. 52, sect. 118.

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