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 Alframpichus; 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 oneirocritism, 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. Concerning oneirocritics and oneirocritica, Onkrocritica, the unlearned reader will find much information in Warburton's Divine Legation of Mofcs, and the books to which he refers.