Cambysbs dreamed that his crown touched the heaven, and that he sat in his brother Smeidis's royal seat, which was an omen of his death.

The favourite of Ptolomie Alexander, being hurt with a poisoned dart, through the grievousness of the pain, was in bodily tortures. Alexander, it is said, sitting by him, fell asleep, and in his dream saw a dragon, which his mother Olympias kept, carrying a little root in his mouth, and showing the place where it grew, declared by signs it was of such virtue, that it would cure his friend. Alexander, upon awaking, told his dream, and sent to seek that root (for the place was not for off), which having found, it cured not only Ptolomie, but many of the soldiers that were hurt with those kinds of darts. - Such verifications, also, befell the ominous dream of Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, at the nativity of his son, of an eagle being on his palace; with numerous other instances that might be here adduced from the ancient historians.

When Socrates was in prison, Crito went to pay him an early visit, and told him, he was informed by persons come from sea, that the ship from Delos would return that day; the consequence of which was, that Socrates should be put to death on the morrow. Be it so, said Socrates, if it please the gods; yet, I think, the ship will not be here to-day, but to-morrow. Why so, dear friend? said Crito. Because this night, replied Socrates, a woman of a beautiful form, clothed in a white robe, appeared to me in a dream, and, calling me by name, said, "The third day shall land thee safe at fruitful Phtia." They are the words of Achilles in Homer, when he proposed to return to his home. Socrates took it for a prediction of his death, because he judged that to die was to go home to his own country. And his dream was accomplished.

Before the martyrdom of Polycarp, he had a vision: the pillow under his head seemed to him on fire, upon which he said prophetically, that he should be burned alive, which accordingly took place, three days afterwards.

The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, in the first chapter of his Commentaries, professeth, "that he owed it to the gods that certain remedies were suggested to him in dreams, and among the rest, that against spitting of blood and giddiness of the head, as happened to him at Gaeta."

Soranus tells us, that Hippocrates, the father of physic and prince of physicians, was divinely admonished in a dream to go and settle in Thessaly.

Galen, after Hippocrates, prince of the physicians, chose phi/sic for his profession from a dream which his father had a little before his death; and Pliny writes that "the cures of many diseases, unknown before, had been discovered in dreams."

When Cicero was forced into exile by an opposite faction, while he abode at a village in the fields of Atinas, in his sleep he thought, that while he wandered through desert places and unknown countries, he met with C. Marius, in all his consular ornaments, and that he asked him, wherefore his countenance was so sad, and whither he intended that uncertain journey of his? And when he had told him of his misfortune, he took him by the right hand, and gave him to the next Lictor, with command to lead him into his monument, insomuch as there was reserved for him a more happy fortune, and change of his condition. And it came to pass accordingly; for in the temple of Jupiter, erected by Marius, there it was that the senate passed the decree for the return of Cicero from his exile.

A rich vessel of gold being stolen out of the temple of Hercules, Sophocles was showed the resemblance and name of the thief in his sleep, which, for the first and second time, he neglected; but, being troubled the third night, he went to the Areopagi, to whom he made known what had passed. They, upon no other evidence, summoned the party before them, who, after strict examination, confessed the fact, and made restitution of the vessel.

Croesus, king of Lydia, had two sons: one of which being dumb, was a perpetual subject of affliction to him; the other, named Atys, distinguished himself by all kinds of good qualities, and was his great consolation and delight. The father dreamed one night, which made a great impression upon his mind, that this beloved son of his was to perish by iron. Upon this, care was taken to remove out of the young prince's way every thing made of iron. No mention was made of armies, wars, or sieges, before him. But one day there was to be an extraordinary hunting-match, for the killing of a wild boar, which had committed great ravage in the neighbourhood. All the young lords of the court were to be at this hunting. Atys very earnestly importuned his father, that he would give him leave to be present, at least as a spectator. The king could not refuse him that request, but let him go, under the care of a discreet young prince, who had taken refuge in his court, and was named Adrastus. And this very Adrastus, as he was aiming to fling his javelin at the boar, unfortunately killed Atys. And so the dream of his father was accomplished, notwithstanding all his precaution.

The next is singularly remarkable, and as well authenticated as any thing of the kind is well capable of being. I will give it in the words of Rollin. When Alexander laid siege to Tyre, the Samaritans sent him a considerable body of troops; whereas the Jews thought they could not submit themselves to him, so long as Darius, to whom they had taken an oath of allegiance, should be living.

Alexander, being little used to such an answer, particularly since he had obtained so many victories, and thinking that all things ought to bow to him, resolved, the instant he had conquered Tyre, to march against the Jews, and punish their disobedience as rigorously as he had done that of the Tyrians.

In this imminent danger, Jaddus, the high-priest, who governed under the Persian,, seeing himself exposed, with all the inhabitants, to the wrath of the conqueror, had recourse to the protection of the Almighty, and gave orders for the offering up public prayers to implore his assistance, and made sacrifices. The night after, God appeared to him in a dream, and bade him to cause flowers to be scattered up and down the city; to set open all the gates, and go, clothed in his pontifical robes, with all the priests dressed also in their vestments, and all the rest clothed in white, and meet Alexander, and not fear any evil from the king, inasmuch as he would protect them. This command was punctually obeyed; and accordingly this august procession, the very day after, marched out of the city to an eminence called Shapha, whence there was a view of all the plain, as well as of the temple and city of Jerusalem. Here the whole procession waited the arrival of Alexander.