Artemidorus wrote: “TO Dreame of Emmeis getting into the eares, is good onely to Sophisters.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Emmets going into the Eares. · Book 1, encoded section 14 · Text transcription · marked gaps
Original source (English)
TO Dreame of Emmeis getting into the eares, is good onely to Sophisters. Philosophers, and Schoole-masters. For the Emmets represent children which will give audience to Sophisters.
To others it foretels death: For they are daughters of the earth and go again to the earth. I know one which dreamt his two eares were filled with eares of Corn, and how the Corn fell into his hands, and he heard news his brothers heyr was dea [illegible passage], his heyr by reason of the eares of the corn, and his brothers heyr, because the ears represent brothers and sisters. To dream you have Asses ears, is good onely for Philosophers, to others it is servitude and misery. To have the ears of a Lion or Woolfe or any other cruell beast, is snares and deceit by euvie. Moreover, fo dreame that you have Eyes or Ears, signifies blindnesse or deafenesse.
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