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qui auspicia non habent! Itaque nec amnis transeunt auspicato nec tripudio auspicantur. Ubi
ergo avium divinatio? quae, quoniam ab iis, qui auspicia nulla habent, bella administrantur, ad urbanas
res retenta videtur, a bellicis esse sublata. Nam ex
acuminibus quidem, quod totum auspicium militare
est, iam M. Marcellus ille quinquiens consul totum
omisit, idem imperator, idem augur optumus. Et quidem ille dicebat, si quando rem agere vellet, ne impediretur auspiciis, lectica operta facere iter se solere.
Huic simile est, quod nos augures praecipimus, ne
iuges auspicium obveniat, ut iumenta iubeant diiungere.
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