habendum esse duxisset, recubuisse; tum, ei dormienti eundem ilium visum esse rogare, ut quoniam sibi vivo non subvenisset, mortem suam ne inultam esse pateretur; se interfectum in plaustrum a caupone esse conjectum, & supra stercus injectum; petere, ut mani ad portum adesset, priusquam plaustrum ex oppido exiret.  Hoc vero somnio commotum mano bubulco presto ad portam fuisse, quaesisse ex eo, quid esset in plaustro; ilium perterritum fugisse, mortuum erutum esse, cauponem re patefacta poenas dedisse.  Quid hoc somnio dici divinius potest ?” i. e.

As two certain Arcadians, intimate companions, were travelling together, it so happened, that, when they came to Megara, one of them went to an inn, and the other to a friend’s house.  Both had supped at their respective places, and were gone to bed; when lo! he, that was at his friend’s house, dreamt, that his companion came to him, and begged of him for Heaven’s sake to assist him, for that the inn-keeper had contrived a way to murder him:  frightened at first out of his sleep, he rose up; but soon afterward coming a little better to himself, he thought, upon recollection, there was no heed to be given to the vision, and went very quietly to bed again.  But as soon as he was got into his second sleep, the same vision repeated the visit, but the form of his petition was quite altered.  He beseeched him, that, since he had not come to his assistance, while he was among the living, he would not suffer his death, however, to go unrevenged.  Told him that as soon as he was murdered, he was tossed by the inn- keeper into a waggon, and had a little straw thrown over his corpse.  He entreated him to be ready very early at the door before the waggon was to go out of town.  This dream truly disturbed him it seems very much, and made him get up very early:  he nicked the time, and met with the waggoner just at the very door, and asked him what he had in his cart.  The fellow run away frightened and confounded.  The dead body was pulled out of it, and the whole matter coming plainly to light, the inn-keeper suffered for the crime.—­What is there that one can call more divine than a dream like this ?”

“—–­Somnium de Simonide, qui, cum ignotum quendam projectum mortuum vidisset, eumque humavisset, haberetque in animo navem conscendere, moneri visus est, ne id faceret, ab eo, quem sepultum affecerat:  si navigasset, cum naufragio esse perituram:  itaque Simonidem rediisse periisse caeeteros, qui tum navigassent.”

—–­The dream of Simonides.  This person, when he saw a certain body thrown dead upon the shore, though a stranger, caused him to be buried.  Much about that time he had it in his head to go on ship-board, but dreamt that he had warning given him by the man he had got to be interred, not to go; that if he went, the ship would infallibly be cast away.  Upon this Simonides returned, and every soul of them besides that went on board was lost.