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Divination by dreams (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Dream omens (Zaqiqu) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.05 Dream omens (Zaqiqu) Terrestrial omens (Šumma ālu) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.02 Terrestrial omens (Šumma ālu)	Keywords dreams omens
Period 6th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.71 (Scholia):
Telmessos is a city of Lycia. This is a city that is very old and it existed even in the times of Croesus. These (people) are said to have been the first to discover and interpret dreams and signs. For they said, if there was anything wonderful, that it signified such and such. And by all means, as they said, it would happen that it came about.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.71 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 116

Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus

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