*Arch&ologU Attic a. Lib. 7. Cap 5. 353
Plato who thought the aire to be suJl os such things. And
so Demerits ( as the Scholiast reports, who saies that heln °fytf.
had it from Homer hirnselse ) thought that men dreamt this
or that dreame Antim ^tuTrlas-n, or (asa Plutarchhas ita DsPlacit.
from the same man) x?1 ©^t^tW^/according tothU Fhilof.
tompofitiou, or feparation os Images, or G'hefts, or phancies, or
fomewhat. Bat indeed I think thole e?cfc*«, fhould not be fo
much Images as Imaginations, nor so much umbra Ghofts,as „
adxmbrationes, Images and Species in the Phancy proceeding
from the jpiriti within, and not from those Without.
CAP. V.
*De Sommorum vanUgineribut, & de eorum hstratione.
FOR their descent, they thought all dreames to have one
common mother the Earth, xsie f*i»7is we/par, saies Eu-
ripides. And the Scholiast upon him gives the reason, &*.« f
yp; at'^iUsin 3 s$I &z£v 01 unvetyvK >J -Jjl vrparoi avn^ji, bccaole
from the earth comes meat.from meat ftsep,andsrom Jleep dreames.
Some indeed thought, they were srom Hecate, ( and fo they
may come srom the earth ftill. ) And fome from the Moo»e,
which was all one, and suited very well to the time of their
coming, the night.
For the Kinds of dreame;, Asacrebius makes sive, viz. I. §h*
mcp.*, 2. 'Evvmim, J. *Qr«si©-, 4. "o^uct, 5. Xs»uailcp.o,'.
0:hets divided them into impea.if, and z*asn>xa.TiKifovKs\s(,
Stafs)uttTirdt were 0/ 7*1 1^7^/ 3*0 w^jjio/iw'tk, whe» things ap-
peared in their cWn tikenejse. 'hm-pzwi were when they ap-
peared in the lkenesse os other things 5 when one thing was
dreamt and another meant. Such as Cefar's wa?, when he
dreamt he lay with his Mother, and fo was insormed Impc-
tium orbis terra porttndi, qua cuntlorum viventium fit mater,
that the whole earth the mother of every living thing was to
be under him. Nay the diftindion os dreames was foac-
Y y curate,
Plato who thought the aire to be suJl os such things. And
so Demerits ( as the Scholiast reports, who saies that heln °fytf.
had it from Homer hirnselse ) thought that men dreamt this
or that dreame Antim ^tuTrlas-n, or (asa Plutarchhas ita DsPlacit.
from the same man) x?1 ©^t^tW^/according tothU Fhilof.
tompofitiou, or feparation os Images, or G'hefts, or phancies, or
fomewhat. Bat indeed I think thole e?cfc*«, fhould not be fo
much Images as Imaginations, nor so much umbra Ghofts,as „
adxmbrationes, Images and Species in the Phancy proceeding
from the jpiriti within, and not from those Without.
CAP. V.
*De Sommorum vanUgineribut, & de eorum hstratione.
FOR their descent, they thought all dreames to have one
common mother the Earth, xsie f*i»7is we/par, saies Eu-
ripides. And the Scholiast upon him gives the reason, &*.« f
yp; at'^iUsin 3 s$I &z£v 01 unvetyvK >J -Jjl vrparoi avn^ji, bccaole
from the earth comes meat.from meat ftsep,andsrom Jleep dreames.
Some indeed thought, they were srom Hecate, ( and fo they
may come srom the earth ftill. ) And fome from the Moo»e,
which was all one, and suited very well to the time of their
coming, the night.
For the Kinds of dreame;, Asacrebius makes sive, viz. I. §h*
mcp.*, 2. 'Evvmim, J. *Qr«si©-, 4. "o^uct, 5. Xs»uailcp.o,'.
0:hets divided them into impea.if, and z*asn>xa.TiKifovKs\s(,
Stafs)uttTirdt were 0/ 7*1 1^7^/ 3*0 w^jjio/iw'tk, whe» things ap-
peared in their cWn tikenejse. 'hm-pzwi were when they ap-
peared in the lkenesse os other things 5 when one thing was
dreamt and another meant. Such as Cefar's wa?, when he
dreamt he lay with his Mother, and fo was insormed Impc-
tium orbis terra porttndi, qua cuntlorum viventium fit mater,
that the whole earth the mother of every living thing was to
be under him. Nay the diftindion os dreames was foac-
Y y curate,