Quae si foret, frustra quaepiam, quin potius aut vox aut certe cuiuspiam vox diceretur, ut ait illa Terentiana meretrix: nescit unde ea exorta sit, aut in ipsa aliquid addubitat, aut eam quiddam insolitum et arcanum demonstrat habuisse, ita ut Socrates eam, quam sibi [ac] divinitus editam tempestive accidere dicebat.
Had that had been so, it would have been pointless to say a certain, but rather a voice or at any rate someones voice, as the prostitute says in Terence, does not know its origin, or is rather unsure about it, or indicates that it had something unusual and mysterious about it, as Socrates did with that voice when he maintained that it came to him at the right moment from heaven.
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