The dangers of disregarding prophecy

What nation or what state disregards the prophecies of soothsayers, or of interpreters of prodigies and lightnings, or of augurs, or of astrologers, or of oracles, or the forewarnings of dreams, or of frenzy?  Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Divination.  Book 1.  Section 12.

Etruscan Statuette from Apiro, Italy 460-450 BCE Bronze photographed at the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

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