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Full Idea
Why should the gods not be apprehensive of their own possible dissolution?
Gist of Idea
Why shouldn't the gods fear their own destruction?
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.114)
Book Ref
Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.116