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When the soul itself is weakened and
relaxed many such sights and sounds, you may
be sure, are seen and heard in all manner of
confusion and diversity. Then especially do the
'remnants' of our waking thoughts and deeds move
and stir within the soul. For example, in the time
of my banishment Marius was often in my mind as
I recalled with what great fortitude and courage he
had borne his own heavy misfortunes, and this I
think is the reason why I dreamed about him.
68. "As for your dream, it occurred while
you were thinking and worrying about me1 and
then you had the vision of me as I suddenly arose
from the river. For in the souls of us both were
'traces of our waking thoughts,' but with some
added features, of course: as, for example, my
dreaming of Marius's monument and your dreaming
that the horse on which I rode sank with me and
then reappeared.
1 During Cicero's banishment.
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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