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this Autolyciis. But, the next day, after he had taken the city, and 

 was purfuing the Ciiicians, who made their efcape by fea, he found a 

 ftatue upon the fea-fliore, which they had not had time to get on 

 board, and carry off. This ftatue, he vv iS told, was ihe (latue of 

 Autolycus, who had accompanied Hercules in his expedition againft 

 the Amazons, and having been Ihipwrecked, and IcFt in tnat country, 

 founded this Greek city, wliich, upon his account, Luculhis fpared ; 

 remembering, as Plutarch fays, what Sylla had written in the CAJin- 

 mentaries of his hfe, which he left vsith Lucullus, that he ought to re- 

 gard nothing fo much as what was fignified to him in dreams *.' 



This is the flory of Lucullus's dream. The other ftory, told by the 

 fame author, in the life of Pompey, is of a dream of a Roman called 

 Petitius, commander of a coafting veflcl, which happened to be fta- 

 tioned upon the coafl: of Theffaly, not far from LarifTa, at the time 

 when Pom.pey was defeated in the battle of Pharfalia ; the night after 

 which, he had a dream, in which Pompey appeared to him in a mean 

 drefs, and much dejeQed. This dream he was telling to fome of the 

 crew, when one of them called out, that there was a boat coming from 

 the land towards them, and that the people in it made figns to be ta- 

 ken into the (liip. Upon the boat's drawing near, he immediately 

 knew Pompey by the figure he had fccn of him in his dream ; for 

 Pompey, when he fled from the field of Pharfalia, had thrown away 

 all enfigns of dignity, and dilmifled all his attendants f. 



There are, 1 know, who will reject this, and other narratives of the 

 fame kind, that might be produced, related by grave hiftorians, not as 

 hearfays, but as matters of fad, and this upon the credit of their fyftem 

 of philofophy, which is no other than matenali/m^ and the difbelief of 

 all fpirituai beings. But 1 would have thofe philofophers try how they 

 can accoupt, upon their fyftem, for our ordinary dreams, in which 



we 



* Plutarchus in Vita Luculli, pp.g. 506. Editio Frar\cofurti. 

 t Idem in Vita Pompeii, p. 658. 



