The senate decreed that they should resign their charge, and so they accordingly abdicated.

What greater example need we seek for?
The wisest, perhaps the most excellent of men, chose to confess his fault, which he might have concealed, rather than leave the public the least atom of religious guilt; and the consuls chose to quit the highest office in the State, rather than fill it for a moment in defiance of religion.

How great is the reputation of the augurs! And is not the art of the soothsayers divine?
And must not every one who sees what innumerable instances of the same kind there are confess the existence of the Gods?
For they who have interpreters must certainly exist themselves; now, there are interpreters of the Gods; therefore we must allow there are Gods.

But it may be said, perhaps, that all predictions are not accomplished.

We may as well conclude there is no art of physic, because all sick persons do not recover.