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"According to this same Coelius, Gaius Gracchus
told many persons that his brother Tiberius came
to him in a dream when he was a candidate for the
quaestorship and said: 'However much you may
try to defer your fate, nevertheless you must die
the same death that I did.' This happened before
Gaius was tribune of the people, and Coelius writes
that he himself heard it from Gaius who had repeated
it to many others. Can you find anything better
authenticated than this dream?
27. "And who, pray, can make light of the
two following dreams which are so often recounted
by Stoic writers? The first one is about Simonides,
who once saw the dead body of some unknown
man lying exposed and buried it. Later, when he
had it in mind to go on board a ship he was warned
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in a vision by the person to whom he had given
burial not to do so and that if he did he would
perish in a shipwreck. Therefore he turned back
and all the others who sailed were lost.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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