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Now, before Archelaus was gone up to Rome upon this message, he related
this dream to his friends: That he saw ears of corn, in number ten, full
of wheat, perfectly ripe, which ears, as it seemed to him, were devoured
by oxen. And when he was awake and gotten up, because the vision appeared
to beof great importance to him, he sent for the diviners, whose study
was employed about dreams. And while some were of one opinion, and some
of another, (for all their interpretations did not agree,) Simon, a man
of the sect of the Essens, desired leave to speak his mind freely, and
said that the vision denoted a change in the affairs of Archelaus, and
that not for the better; that oxen, because that animal takes uneasy pains
in his labors, denoted afflictions, and indeed denoted, further, a change
of affairs, because that land which is ploughed by oxen cannot remain in
its former state; and that the ears of corn being ten, determined the like
number of years, because an ear of corn grows in one year; and that the
time of Archelaus's government was over. And thus did this man expound
the dream. Now on the fifth day after this dream came first to Archelaus,
the other Archelaus, that was sent to Judea by Caesar to call him away,
came hither also.
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