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| DIVINATIO | |
| Form: prevision of the future. | |
| In this language of Roman law, divinatio meant the legal inquiry for deciding who, among many advocates proposing themselves, was the fittest to undertake a prosecution, and the speeches by which the various advocates tried to make good their competency for the task. | |
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