Plautus, Mercator 225-6

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“The gods make sport of mortals in miraculous ways and in their sleep send them dreams of marvellous kinds”

miris modis di ludos faciunt hominibus
mirisque exemplis somnia in somnis danunt

Titus Maccius Plautus

Not to worry -- Artemidorus of Daldis (2nd c. CE) wrote an extensive treatise on interpreting dreams (Oneirocritica)

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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