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Archdologiit Attic*. Lib.j. Cap. 3. 349
engagement,and much conducing to the successe. Sometioies
they would go and (kep in a Temple with Laurel!, orTome
such fatidical! stuffe tyed about their heads , and sacrisice to
a griz,o, the goddesseof the dreamers, so called srom B^yca ^J-^ 5 ^1
to /Zssp. The Lacedemonians kept men os purpose to/Le/> in.; ±, uvvouav-
the Temple of Tasthea, to watch sordreames. Soisany7K< Athewt,'
were sick. they would go and sleep in the Temple of ^£scu'.a~ m /, g,
to dreame osa remedy, ( as they have used to do with us,
to go watch at the Church doore, to know who slull dye
next ) Pluto in %Ariftoyhanss did so,
KATiYJXivouiV <r irKxnv, acans ay2( i7c.
And the like was wont to be done in JEgypt in the Temple
os Seraph. But Juvenal his sufficiently declared the vanity of
all this doings in saying,
2\(o» delubra deum, nee ab athere numina mittunt ' ^'
SedJibi qm /g, facie.
Befides all this they cook a fpeci'all care of their diet, so as -
to fast sor one day before, and abftaioe srom Wine for three,
as likewise to fotbeare eating Beanes or raw fruit. tAriftnle
saies there is no credit to be given v^ivo-numfii itfartUh% to
dreams in the tsimumne. But Plutarch quefiions that againe,
and saies if we eate good and ripe fruit, *«tm\oi<, xj-jsj- Sympof. I.
<hirjv tvvrrnui ovtiojAtV'i our dreames will be the truer. Fiji) either
they counted very good, or very bad. For when they facri-
ficed to Urizo, they osfered boats full os all manner of things
but Fifh ; whether it were to pleafe the goddesfe with the
fparing of the belt thing, or the rejection of the woifl 1 can-
not tell. b Plutarch obferves chat the head of a Poljput is b Cal. Rhod,
as fowtr in the dreame, as 'tis fweet in the tuft: and therefore /. 27. c. 10.
compares Poetry to it.when i: is not moderately ufed. Some
choice there was alfo of the colour of their Clothes. For the
whiteft and cleared
few, faies Suidas: as if D earns and :he Vilions muft needs be
the clearer. The trueft dreames (l» ^ome/ai) or the cleared
visions, were either a little after ic was day, or toward the
morning
engagement,and much conducing to the successe. Sometioies
they would go and (kep in a Temple with Laurel!, orTome
such fatidical! stuffe tyed about their heads , and sacrisice to
a griz,o, the goddesseof the dreamers, so called srom B^yca ^J-^ 5 ^1
to /Zssp. The Lacedemonians kept men os purpose to/Le/> in.; ±, uvvouav-
the Temple of Tasthea, to watch sordreames. Soisany7K< Athewt,'
were sick. they would go and sleep in the Temple of ^£scu'.a~ m /, g,
to dreame osa remedy, ( as they have used to do with us,
to go watch at the Church doore, to know who slull dye
next ) Pluto in %Ariftoyhanss did so,
KATiYJXivouiV <r irKxnv, acans ay2( i7c.
And the like was wont to be done in JEgypt in the Temple
os Seraph. But Juvenal his sufficiently declared the vanity of
all this doings in saying,
2\(o» delubra deum, nee ab athere numina mittunt ' ^'
SedJibi qm /g, facie.
Befides all this they cook a fpeci'all care of their diet, so as -
to fast sor one day before, and abftaioe srom Wine for three,
as likewise to fotbeare eating Beanes or raw fruit. tAriftnle
saies there is no credit to be given v^ivo-numfii itfartUh% to
dreams in the tsimumne. But Plutarch quefiions that againe,
and saies if we eate good and ripe fruit, *«tm\oi<, xj-jsj- Sympof. I.
<hirjv tvvrrnui ovtiojAtV'i our dreames will be the truer. Fiji) either
they counted very good, or very bad. For when they facri-
ficed to Urizo, they osfered boats full os all manner of things
but Fifh ; whether it were to pleafe the goddesfe with the
fparing of the belt thing, or the rejection of the woifl 1 can-
not tell. b Plutarch obferves chat the head of a Poljput is b Cal. Rhod,
as fowtr in the dreame, as 'tis fweet in the tuft: and therefore /. 27. c. 10.
compares Poetry to it.when i: is not moderately ufed. Some
choice there was alfo of the colour of their Clothes. For the
whiteft and cleared
few, faies Suidas: as if D earns and :he Vilions muft needs be
the clearer. The trueft dreames (l» ^ome/ai) or the cleared
visions, were either a little after ic was day, or toward the
morning