a title given to interpreters of dreams, or those who judge of events from the circumstances of dreams.

There is no great regard to be had to those Greek books called oneirocritics; nor do we know why the patriarch of Constantinople, and others, should amuse themselves with writing on so pitiful a subject.

Rigault has given us a collection of the Greek and Latin works of this kind; one attributed to Altrampichus; another to Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinople; to which are added the treatises of Artemidorus and Achmet.—But the books themselves are little else than reveries; a kind of waking dreams, to explain and account for sleeping ones.

The secret of oneirocriticism, according to them all, consists in the relation supposed to be between the dream, and the thing signified: but they are far from keeping to the relations of agreement and similitude; and frequently have recourse to others of dissimilitude, and contrariety.

ONESIAE THERMÆ, (Strabo;) who calls them excellent baths, and salutary waters, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Aquitania. Near the river Aturus stands at this day the town Bagnères, famous for its waters, which appear to be the Onesiae of Strabo; situate in the county of Bigorre in Gascony, near the river Adour.

ONIAE OPPIDUM and Templum, (Josephus;) so called from Onias, the high-priest of the Jews in Egypt; who built a temple in imitation of that at Jerusalem, by permission of the king of Egypt, on the spot where stood the temple of Diana Aegretis in Leontopolis: it was encompassed with a brick wall, and had a large tower like that at Jerusalem, (Josephus:) it was the metropolis of the Nomos Heliopolites, (Ptolemy;) because in Strabo's time Heliopolis was fallen to decay.