Historical dream account · English · published source text
The gold medal of Julius Caesar
Moses Amyraldus
The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams (1869) · Original 1869 edition, printed pp. 377, 378
Dreamer identified by the source: Monsieur Peirese
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A councillor of the parliament of Provence, Monsieur Peirese by name, going from Montpellier to Nismes, lay all night at an inn which is midway betwixt those two places ; he had in his company one James Rainier, citizen of Aix, who in that journey lodged in the same chamber with him. As that great man slept, Rainier observed that he talked and muttered something in his sleep otherwise than was usual with him; whereupon he awakened him, and asked him what was the matter. ‘ Oh !’ said he, ‘ you have made me lose a most excellent and pleasant dream ; for I was dreaming that I was at Nismes, and that a goldsmith showed me a golden medal of Julius Cæsar, which he would sell me for four crowns ; and as I was ready to give him them, both my goldsmith and my medal vanished away together by your awakening of me.’ Being arrived at Nismes, and having not forgot his dream, he went to walk in the city till such time as dinner was ready, and passing up and down, he went into a goldsmith’s shop, to ask him whether he had any rarity to show him, whereupon the goldsmith answered that he had a Julius Cæsar of gold. M. de Peirese asking the price of it, he answered, four crowns. This circumstance filled the mind of that great person both with joy and admiration, as well for that he had found a rarity which he had long very much sought for, as also for the surprising and strange manner whereby it came into his hands.
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Historical published account of a recalled sleep dream, not a verified prediction or contemporary community submission. One complete separately narrated case; source explanation and subsequent unrelated cases excluded. Paired/recurring episodes remain together. These are historically published claimed recollections. Source claims of fulfilment/causation are not independently established facts, predictions or medical evidence.
Moses Amyraldus, Discourse concerning Divine Dreams, as quoted by Frank Seafield, The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams, second edition, revised (London: Lockwood & Co., 1869), printed pp. 377, 378. Source: Wellcome Collection. Dreamer and anthology compiler are credited separately. Descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
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Original 1869 edition, printed pp. 377, 378
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