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One possibility is to leave the wording more or less as is (perhaps emending [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.
As editor, Hankins has adopted a streamlined classicizing orthography for the text: classical spelling for diphthongs, "intellego/intellegentia" for "intelligo/intelligentia," and so on; and he has taken a minimalist approach, emending rarely, even as he corrects many of Marcel's readings.
While I accept that some correction of the text seems necessary here, I would prefer an altogether different solution, retaining F's quis esset, and instead emending divino praesagio to divina praesagia; on this reading, quis esset would be an 'I-know-thee-who-thou-art' question with ignis as its antecedent, and praesagia would be the common object of editurus, scire and enuntiare.
 
 
 
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