Sir George M'Kenzie, Edinburgh:
Sold by P. Anderson, Parliament Square. M.DCC.LXXX.
La Magie et l'Astrologie dans I'Antiquite et au Moyen Age, ou Etude
sur les superstitions paiennes qui se sont perpetuees jusqu'a nos
jours. Par L.F. Alfred Maury. Troisieme Edition revue et corrigee.
Paris: Didier. 1864.
[99] Lucian, in his "Liars," puts this opinion into the mouth of
Arignotus. The theory by which Lucretius seeks to explain
apparitions, though materialistic, seems to allow some influence also
to the working of imagination. It is hard otherwise to explain how
his _simulacra_, (which are not unlike the _astral spirits_ of later
times) should appear in dreams.
Quae simulacra....
.... nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes
terrificant atque in somnis, cum saepe figuras
contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum
quae nos horrifice languentis saepe sopore
excierunt.
_De Rer. Nat._ IV. 33-37, ed. Munro.
[100] Pliny's Letters, VII. 27. Melmoth's translation.
[101] Something like this is the speech of Don Juan, after the statue
of Don Gonzales has gone out:
"Pero todas son ideas
Que da a la imaginacion
El temor; y temer muertos
Es muy villano temor.
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