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The dream of Apollonius (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


Keywords
dreams
fish
omens
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.23:
He proceeded (= Apollonius) into the territory of Cissia, and was nearly at Babylon when he received a vision in a dream. This is how the god who granted the vision arranged it. Fish had been cast up from the sea and were gasping on land, wailing like humans, and grieving at being exiled from their element. They begged a dolphin that was swimming close to land to help them in their piteous state, like humans weeping in a foreign land. Apollonius was not at all dismayed by the dream, but realized its meaning and tendency.


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Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.23

Amar Annus


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