Opening On Divination — Cicero in Plato Scroll…
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Cicero · W. A. Falconer
Translated by W. A. Falconer, 1923. Two books in which Quintus defends — and Cicero dismantles — the claims of augury, astrology, oracles, and dreams; a companion to On the Nature of the Gods. Date of Composition THIS TREATISE WAS intended by Cicero to supplement his earlier work De natura deorum, which was finished probably in August 45 B.C. The greater part of the first book of the De divinatione was written (in part at least) before the assassination of Caesar, but the work was not completed and published until after that event. The Interlocutors The dialogue is represented as taking place between Cicero and his only brother Quintus, at Cicero’s country home at Tusculum, •about ten miles from Rome. Quintus Cicero was born about 102 B.C.; received instruction in the best schools at the Rome and in Greece; was aedile in 65; praetor in 62; governor of Asia from March 61 to April 58; and …
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