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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK I
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On the subject of the nature of the Gods, he falls into the same errors.

While he would avoid the concretion of individual bodies, lest death and dissolution should be the consequence, he denies that the Gods have body, but says they have something like body; and says they have no blood, but something like blood.
XXVI.

It seems an unaccountable thing how one soothsayer can refrain from laughing when he sees another.

It is yet a greater wonder that you can refrain from laughing among yourselves.

It is no body, but something like body! I could understand this if it were applied to statues made of wax or clay; but in regard to the Deity, I am not able to discover what is meant by a quasi-body or quasi-blood.


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