Artemidorus wrote: “FOr to wrastle with any parent, signifyes strife with him.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Wrastling. · Book 1, encoded section 47 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
FOr to wrastle with any parent, signifyes strife with him. And among such as are at strife already, he which dreames he is superiour, shall vanquish, if they strive not for beritage, for in such a controversie it were better to be beaten: to wrastle with a stranger, is danger of sicknes: if a man fight with a child and he throw him upon the ground, he shall lose some friend by death, if he be beaten, he shall have mockery, and sicknes. It is good for a litle child to wrastle with a man, for he shall do great matters, more then one would think. But if he wrastle or combat with a Champion, this dream is not good for him. To wrastle with death, betokens sicknes or debate, and suits in law with the children or heyres of dead men. But it is good alwayes for the rich man, to think or dream that he is in Authority.
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