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"The second dream is very well known and is to
this effect: Two friends from Arcadia who were
taking a journey together came to Megara, and one
traveller put up at an inn and the second went
to the home of a friend. After they had eaten
supper and retired, the second traveller, in the dead
of the night, dreamed that his companion was imploring him to come to his aid, as the innkeeper
was planning to kill him. Greatly frightened at
first by the dream he arose, and later, regaining his
composure, decided that there was nothing to worry
about and went back to bed. When he had gone
to sleep the same person appeared to him and said:
'Since you would not help me when I was alive, I
beg that you will not allow my dead body to remain
unburied. I have been killed by the innkeeper,
who has thrown my body into a cart and covered it
with dung. I pray you to be at the city gate in
the morning before the cart leaves the town.'
Thoroughly convinced by the second dream he met
the cart-driver at the gate in the morning, and,
when he asked what he had in the cart, the driver
fled in terror. The Arcadian then removed his
friend's dead body from the cart, made complaint
of the crime to the authorities, and the innkeeper
was punished. 28. What stronger proof of a
divinely inspired dream than this can be given?
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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