■ s Arch&ologU Attic*. Lib.-]. Cap. 3. 347
cap. nr.1
De Divinatione per [omnium , super Melcttu in
TmflU) cum obftrvatione dUta.
TJRophecying by a Dreame, was either om^tSK^ Somniato-
JL r#, of a Dreamer os Dreames, or oi/H&y/ns Qort]e£loriss os
an Interpreter ofdmme?, such as Hecuba spske of, when Hie
said 1*01 Kplva To7s SrWggea. The latter of these sutely belongs
to the techmca/l part os divination , and may be reckoned sor
an Ksirt, s? well as any other sort os Ariolation. For he that
(hall objeA that speaking butyo/»smws; true, does not argue
skill, beavtk st fape jaBaveriit ejuando^ veneremjacies, in Ci-
cero's opinion may be answered with this question, jQua . ,
tandem U arsnonktbtt? Besides if it were noArt, what talke Llb-1-'D>v"t-
we of Xtnophon's dreams in his service with Cyrw, or how
came it, that there were so many books written of this sub-
jecl? For, to say nothing of a eleven more that wrote os pur-
pose of it, nor of the Treatise dei uvnriav reported by b Pin-
tarch to be found among Mithridates his books, Artemon^ ln sompci^
Milesiu* wrote two and twenty books os it hiroselse; and
there is a very pretty copy of about fourescore^»4m'verses
in Greek, touching the significationos such or such a sighc
in a dreame. But the dreame ( vou must understandj was not
every wap, or vaine dreame ( for so does the Etymology im#
poi'C.c;%^Ti»« '»',T©-cj^3-afapc7r, saies Ettstathiut ) butJ'-wp,
Mimes ......fa-""-j ~.....r s t - » -ur, v w
Hi <n ov eisnv, and of such is that os Orphttu in the Hymn: t&*& "J01
"A^Xl ^v-^v Svmotf xsiepS stfat, I believe few that «**sst**W ,
re?d me are s«ch as Plutarcbs Thrafymede, or Tliniss AtL-.n- s£*> •
*«. that never dreamt os a dreame, and theresore I will make "<?OT- ^J/N
bold to detaine them the longer. It is varioussy conjedured T:
X x : who
cap. nr.1
De Divinatione per [omnium , super Melcttu in
TmflU) cum obftrvatione dUta.
TJRophecying by a Dreame, was either om^tSK^ Somniato-
JL r#, of a Dreamer os Dreames, or oi/H&y/ns Qort]e£loriss os
an Interpreter ofdmme?, such as Hecuba spske of, when Hie
said 1*01 Kplva To7s SrWggea. The latter of these sutely belongs
to the techmca/l part os divination , and may be reckoned sor
an Ksirt, s? well as any other sort os Ariolation. For he that
(hall objeA that speaking butyo/»smws; true, does not argue
skill, beavtk st fape jaBaveriit ejuando^ veneremjacies, in Ci-
cero's opinion may be answered with this question, jQua . ,
tandem U arsnonktbtt? Besides if it were noArt, what talke Llb-1-'D>v"t-
we of Xtnophon's dreams in his service with Cyrw, or how
came it, that there were so many books written of this sub-
jecl? For, to say nothing of a eleven more that wrote os pur-
pose of it, nor of the Treatise dei uvnriav reported by b Pin-
tarch to be found among Mithridates his books, Artemon^ ln sompci^
Milesiu* wrote two and twenty books os it hiroselse; and
there is a very pretty copy of about fourescore^»4m'verses
in Greek, touching the significationos such or such a sighc
in a dreame. But the dreame ( vou must understandj was not
every wap, or vaine dreame ( for so does the Etymology im#
poi'C.c;%^Ti»« '»',T©-cj^3-afapc7r, saies Ettstathiut ) butJ'-wp,
Mimes ......fa-""-j ~.....r s t - » -ur, v w
Hi <n ov eisnv, and of such is that os Orphttu in the Hymn: t&*& "J01
"A^Xl ^v-^v Svmotf xsiepS stfat, I believe few that «**sst**W ,
re?d me are s«ch as Plutarcbs Thrafymede, or Tliniss AtL-.n- s£*> •
*«. that never dreamt os a dreame, and theresore I will make "<?OT- ^J/N
bold to detaine them the longer. It is varioussy conjedured T:
X x : who