Lord Byron's Dream Book (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lord Byron's Dream BookArtemidorus not' only bought up every book that he could hear of concerning the explication of dreams, but spent much time in traveling in order to make the acquaintance of soothsayers and others, and he carried on an extensive correspondence with persons of that kind in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, carefully collecting all reports of dreams, and of the events which are said to have fol lowed them.The subject of dreams and auguries received a vast deal of at tention in the Roman Empire at the beginning of the Christian era. In the reign of the Emperor Augustus, a law was passed obliging all who had dreamt anything respecting the State to make it public at once, either by means of a placard or by the mouth of the public crier. The Emperor himself, in consequence of a Vision, used on one day of the year in the streets.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.