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Grant, I repeat, that these dreams are myths and
in the same category put Aeneas's dream, related
in the Greek annals of our countryman, Fabius
Pictor. According to Pictor everything that Aeneas
did or suffered turned out just as it had been predicted to him in a dream.
22. "But let us look at examples nearer our own
times. Would you dare call that famous dream of
Tarquin the Proud a myth? He describes it himself
in the following lines from the Brutus of Accius:
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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