ille deos non larga caede iuvencum, non alacri penna aut verum salientibus extis, nec tripode implicito numerisque sequentibus astra, turea nec supra volitante altaria fumo tam penitus, durae quam Mortis limite manes elicitos, patuisse refert;
He says the gods do not so thoroughly reveal themselves by lavish slaughter of steers or swift pinnion or entrails leaping to show truth or by riddling tripod or numbers that track the stars, nor yet by smoke flowing over incense-bearing altars, as do spirits summoned from the boundary of cruel death.
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