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"But why go on seeking illustrations from
ancient history? I had a dream which I have
often related to you, and you one which you have
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often told to me. When I was governor of Asia1
I dreamed that I saw you on horseback riding toward
the bank of some large river, when you suddenly
plunged forward, fell into the stream, and wholly
disappeared from sight. I was greatly alarmed
and trembled with fear. But in a moment you
reappeared mounted on the same horse, and with
a cheerful countenance ascended the opposite bank
where we met and embraced each other. The
meaning of the dream was readily explained to me
by experts in Asia who from it predicted those
events which subsequently occurred.2
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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