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Single Idea 2645

[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions ]

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