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Question 73. Why were priests that had sores about
them forbid to use divination.
Solution. Is not this a significant sign that, whilst
they are employed about divine matters, they ought not to
be in any pain, nor have any sore or passion in their minds,
but to be cheerful, sincere, and without distraction? Or it
is but rational, if no man may offer a victim that hath a
sore, nor use such birds for soothsaying, that much more
they should themselves be free from these blemishes, and
be clean, sincere, and sound, when they go about to inspect
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divine prodigies; for an ulcer seems to be a mutilation and
defilement of the body.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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