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✧ ̓Ονείρου ✧ θυμίαμα αρώματα. Κικλήσκω σε, μάκαρ, τανυσίπτερε, οὖλε ̓́Ονειρε, ἄγγελε μελλόντων, θνητοῖς χρησμωιδὲ μέγιστε : ἡσυχίαι γὰρ ὕπνου γλυκεροῦ σιγηλὸς ἐπελθών, προ[ς]φωνῶν ψυχαῖς θνητῶν νόον αὐτὸς ἐγείρεις, καὶ γνώμας μακάρων αὐτὸς καθ’ ὕπνους ὑποπέμπεις, σιγῶν σιγώσαις ψυχαῖς μέλλοντα προφαίνων, οἷσιν ἐπ’ εὐσεβίηισι θεῶν νόος ἐσθλὸς ὁδεύει, ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ τὸ καλὸν μέλλον, γνώμηισι προληφθέν, τερπωλαῖς ὑπάγηι ίον ἀνθρώπων προχαρέντων, τῶν δὲ κακῶν ἀνάπαυλαν, ὅπως θεὸς αὐτὸς ἐνίσπηι εὐχωλαῖς θυσίαις τε χόλον λύσαντες ἀνάκτων. εὐσεβέσιν γὰρ ἀεὶ τὸ τέλος γλυκερώτερόν ἐστι, τοῖς δὲ κακοῖς οὐδὲν φαίνει μέλλουσαν ἀνάγκην ὄψις ὀνειρήεσσα, κακῶν ἐξάγγελος ἔργων, ὄφρα μὴ εὕρωνται λύσιν ἄλγεος ἐρχομένοιο. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, λίτομαί σε θεῶν μηνύματα φράζειν, ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ γνώμαις ὀρθαῖς κατὰ πάντα πελάζηις μηδὲν ἐπ’ ἀλλοκότοισι κακῶν σημεῖα προφαίνων.

LXXXV. TO THE DIVINITY OF DREAMS. The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

THEE I invoke, blest pow'r of dreams divine, Angel of future fates, swift wings are thine: Great source of oracles to human kind, When stealing soft, and whisp'ring to the mind, Thro' sleep's sweet silence and the gloom of night, 5 Thy pow'r awakes th' intellectual fight; To silent souls the will of heav'n relates, And silently reveals their future fates. For ever friendly to the upright mind Sacred and pure, to holy rites inclin'd; 10

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For these with pleasing hope thy dreams inspire, Bliss to anticipate, which all desire. Thy visions manifest of fate disclose, What methods best may mitigate our woes; Reveal what rites the Gods immortal please, 15 And what the means their anger to appease: For ever tranquil is the good man's end, Whose life, thy dreams admonish and defend. But from the wicked turn'd averse to bless, Thy form unseen, the angel of distress; 20 No means to cheek approaching ill they find, Pensive with fears, and to the future blind. Come, blessed pow'r, the signatures reveal Which heav'n's decrees mysteriously conceal, Signs only present to the worthy mind, 25 Nor omens ill disclose of monst'rous kind.