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  • Homer: Et canis in somnis leporis vestigia latrat: as a dog dreams of a hare, so do men on such subjects they thought on last.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ibi forte istum si vidisses quendam in somnis Sosiam --

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • QVONIAM quieti corpus nocturno impetu dedi sopore placans artus languidos: uisust in somnis pastor ad me adpellere pecus lanigerum eximia pulchritudine, duos consanguineos arietes inde eligi5 praeclarioremque alterum immolare me: deine eius germanum cornibus conitier, in me arietare, eoque ictu me ad casum dari: exin prostratum terra, grauiter saucium, resupinum in caelo contueri maxime10 mirificum facinus: dextrorsum orbem flammeum radiatum solis linquier cursu nouo.

    Tarquin's Dream 1912

  • Quid deserta petis? tutior auiis non est forma locis: te nemore abdito cum Titan medium constituit diem, cingent turba licens Naides improbae, 20 formonsos solitae claudere fontibus, et somnis facient insidias tuis

    Fatal Beauty 1912

  • MEA mater grauida parere se ardentem facem uisa est in somnis Hecuba; quo facto pater rex ipse Priamus somnio mentis metu perculsus curis sumptus suspirantibus exsacrificabat hostiis balantibus.

    Cassandra. ii 1912

  • Persons; the Council giveth this Sentence on it; _Satanas qui se transfigurat in Angelum Lucis, transformat se in diversarum personarum species, & mentem quam captivam tenet, in somnis deludit.

    The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches Cotton Mather 1695

  • NVNC quae causa deum per magnas numina gentis peruulgarit et ararum compleuerit urbis suscipeiendaque curarit sollemnia sacra, quae nunc in magnis florent sacra rebu’ locisque, unde etiam nunc est mortablibus insitus horror5 qui delubra deum noua toto suscitat orbi terrarum et festis cogit celebrate diebus, non ita difficilest rationem reddere uerbis quippe etenim iam tum diuum mortalia saecla egregias animo facies uigilante uidebant10 et magis in somnis mirando corporis auctu. his igitur sensum tribuebant propterea quod membra mouere uidebantur uocesque superbas mittere pro facie praeclara et uiribus amplis; aeternamque dabant uitam, quia semper eorum15 suppeditabatur facies et forma manebat, et tamen omnino quod tantis uiribus auctos non temere ulla ui conuinci posse putabant; fortunisque ideo longe praestare putabant, quod mortis timor haud quemquam uexaret eorum, 20 et simul in somnis quia multa et mira uidebant efficere et nullum capere ipsos inde laborem. praeterea caeli rationes ordine certo et uaria annorum cernebant tempora uerti, nec poterant quibus id fieret cognoscere causis.

    Origin of Belief in God Lucretius 1912

  • .... nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes terrificant atque in somnis, cum saepe figuras contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum quae nos horrifice languentis saepe sopore excierunt.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • et dominum capti deseruistis equi; saepe maritorum somnis utuntur amantes, 25

    Love and War Ovid 1912

  • "In somnis mihi visus Homerus adesse poeta."] about whom in his waking hours he was perpetually thinking and talking),

    De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero

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