book 7:35# Thoughts - 思考者
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CHAP. 35.--CONCERNING THE HYDROMANCY THROUGH WHICH NUMA WAS
BEFOOLED BY CERTAIN IMAGES
OF DEMONS SEEN IN THE WATER.
For Numa himself also, to whom no prophet, of God, no holy
angel was sent, was driven to have recourse to hydromancy,
that he might see the
images of the gods in the water (or, rather, appearances
whereby the demons made sport of him), and might learn from
them what he ought to
ordain and observe in the sacred rites. This kind of
divination, says Varro, was introduced from the Pers
BEFOOLED BY CERTAIN IMAGES
OF DEMONS SEEN IN THE WATER.
For Numa himself also, to whom no prophet, of God, no holy
angel was sent, was driven to have recourse to hydromancy,
that he might see the
images of the gods in the water (or, rather, appearances
whereby the demons made sport of him), and might learn from
them what he ought to
ordain and observe in the sacred rites. This kind of
divination, says Varro, was introduced from the Pers