cum praeterea, si omina observitaret, aliquando eorum nonnulla etiam hortamenta haberet, ut videmus plerisque usu evenire, qui nimia ominum superstitione non suopte corde sed alterius verbo reguntur, ac per angiporta reptantes consilia ex alienis uocibus colligunt et, ut ita dixerim, non animo sed auribus cogitant.
Moreover, if he had been an observer of omens, he would have treated some of them as promptings, as we see many people do. Because of their excessive reverence for omens, they let the words of others guide them rather than their own intuition, and they creep down alleyways picking up advice from other peoples remarks, thinking with their ears, so to speak, not with their brains.
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