[48] Hence Sidonius, in personating the city of Rome, makes her ask—
Quid, rogo, bis seno mihi vulture Thuscus aruspex
Portendit?
Sidon. Carm. vii. 55.
And again, addressing himself to the same city,
Jam propè fata tui bissenas vulturis alas
Complebant (scis namque tuos, scis, Roma, labores.)
Ib. ver. 358.
And, before him, Claudian, to the same purpose—
Tunc reputant annos, interceptoque volatu
Vulturis, incidunt properatis sæcula metis.
B. G. ver. 262.
[49] Medea, ver. 374.
[50] Annis seris.
[51] Ferdinand.
[52] Casu, inquis. Itáne verò quicquam potest esse casu factum, quod omnes habet in se numeros veritatis? Quatuor tali jacti, casu Venereum efficiunt. Num etiam centum Venereos, si CCCC talos jeceris, casu futuros putas? De Div. l. i. p. 259, Lutet. 1565.—Had the supposed case been fairly applied to the subject, there had been an end of the dispute; as may appear from the pitiful answer, made in the next book to this reasoning—dixisti multa de casu: ut, Venereum jaci posse casu, quatuor talis jactis; quadringentis, centum Venereos non posse casu consistere. Primùm, NESCIO, CUR NON POSSINT.—Was this, like a philosopher?