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 A R T E M I D O R U S. 341 ! to have followed them [A]. He defpifcd the reproaches <if thole fupercilious perfons, who treat the foretellers of events ns cheats, impoflors, and jugglers; and frequented much the company of thole diviners for fcveral years. He w.is the more ailiduous in his fludy and fearch after the interpretation Artemid. of dreams, being moved thereto, as he fancied, by the advice, llb - " or, in fome meafure, by the command of Apollo. The p< wcrk which he wrote on dreams confided of five books ; the three firft were dedicated to one Caffius Maximus, and the two laft to his fon, whom he took a good deal of pains to inflrucl in the nature and interpretation of dreams. The work was firft printed in Greek, at Venice, 1518; and Ri- galtius published an edition at Paris, Greek and Latin, in 1603, an ^ added fome notes. Artemidorus wrote alfo a " Trcatife upon Auguries," and another upon *' Chiro- " mancy," but they are not extant. Gerard Voflius has criticifed this woik with his ufual good fenfe : " rem ft 41 fpcles, nihil eo opere vanius j fed utilis tamen ejus leclio " humanitatis." De Philofophia, cap. v. 50. [A] Mr. Bayle fays, if a man was perfuade himfelf of the truth of an opi- aot convinced by his own experience, nion, which muft create him fo much that there is nothing more confufrd than uneafinefs ; he had discovered, as he the ideas which are rjiled dreams, yet thought, that when a traveller dreams the rules of this author would be lutfi- of having loft the key of his houfe, this cient to perfuade us, that his art de- i? a fign that his daughter has been de- lerves no regard from a man of fenfe: bauchcd. Artem. lib. v. p. 255. If that thete. is not one dream, which Ar- Artemidorus had dreamed fuch a dream tcmidorus has explained in a particular abroad, mnft he not have been un- manner, but what will admit of a very happy ? and is not this turning an ima- different explication j and this with ginary into a real evil ? the fame degree of probability, and Mr. Dacier compares dreams to the founded upon as reafonable principles as ftoriecot ;i known liar, who may poffibly thnfe upon which Artemidorus proceeds, fometimes tell truth. DJC. Horace, lib. He cxprefles his furprize that Artemi- ii, epift, 2. dorus /hould have laboured fo much to ASCHAM (RrGER) an eminent Enalifh writer, born atEdw.Crar.t Kirkby-Wifke, near Northallerton, in Yorkfhire, about the ratlode year 1515. He was taken into the family of the VVingfields,^ being educated at the expenceoffir Anthony Wingfield,p. 4. with his two fons, under the care of Mr. Bond. He fhewed an early (Hfpofition for learning, which was encouraged by his generous patron, who, after he had attained the elements of the learned languages, fent him, in 1530, to St. John's college in Cambridge, where, having made great progrefs in polite literature, he took the degree of bachelor of arts the 28ih of February, 1534 j and on the 23d of March follow- z 3
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