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"We read in a history by Agathocles that Hamilcar, the Carthaginian, during his siege of Syracuse
heard a voice in his sleep telling him that he would
dine the next day in Syracuse. At daybreak the
following day a serious conflict broke out in his
camp between the troops of the Carthaginians and
their allies, the Siculi. When the Syracusans saw
this they made a sudden assault on the camp and
carried Hamilcar off alive. Thus the event verified
the dream.
"History is full of such instances, and so is everyday life.
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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