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24. "Let us go back to dreams. Coelius
writes that Hannibal wished to carry off a golden
column from Juno's temple at Lacinium, but since
he was in doubt whether it was solid or plated, he
bored into it. Finding it solid he decided to take
it away. But at night Juno came to him in a vision
and warned him not to do so, threatening that if
he did she would cause the loss of his good eye.
That clever man did not neglect the warning. Moreover out of the gold filings he ordered an image of
a calf to be made and placed on top of the column.
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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