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CIcero being (a) Augur.] And of their College: elected by Q. Hortensius the Orator. (b) Blameth.] De diuinat. lib. 2. (c) Academike.] That sect would affirme nothing, but confute the assertions of others, which Cicero vseth in many of his dialogues, professing himselfe a de∣fender * 1.1 of that sect, d•…•… na. de. li. 2. (d) Balbus.] An excellent Stoike. (e) On sides.] On the one side I•…•… Pallas, Neptune: against them, Apollo Uenus and Mars in the Troyan wars. (f) Titans.] Sonne to Earth and Titan, Saturnes brother: they claimed the Kingdome of Iupiter, by the agreement * 1.2 of their fathers, first they did but wrangle, but afterwards to armes. It was a great warre, yet the Titans were subdued. Buu then followed a greater, the rest of the Titans reneuing th•…•… forces and chasing Ioue and all his friends into Aegipt. The first was called the Titans war, thi•…•… the Giants. (g) Inconstancy.] Thus farre Tully. (h) Such as] Lactantius disliketh this deriuation of Superstitious and Religious, deriuing religious of religo to bind, because they are bound to God▪ superstitious of superstes, aliue, because they were of the false religion, which was professed in the liues of their auncestors. lib. 4. of Religions, and read Gellus. lib. 4. But Tully doth not confine the name to those praying fellowes, but saith it was of large vse afterwards in other * 1.3 respects (i) in awe.] In the bookes. De nat. deor, and De diuinat, it is plaine that Tully durst n•…•… speake his mind freely of those gods, because of the inueterat custome of his country. (k) heauen and] whome Tully with the Stoicks maketh the chiefe of the gods.