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Sic omnia latere censebat in occulto, neque esse quicquam quod cerni, quod intelligi, posset; quibus de causis nihil oportere neque profiteri neque affirmare quenquam, neque assentione approbare, etc." Acad. Quæst. i. 12. See also Lucullus, 9 and 18. They were countenanced in these conclusions by Plato's doctrine of ideas. Lucullus, 46. Sext. Empir. Pyrrh. Hypot. i. 33.
We shall now proceed to notice the subject of dreams in another point of view that is, as being employed as a medium of divination in the cure of diseases, in which the fancies of the brain appear, in reality, to as little advantage as they do with reference to any other considerations in which such pretended omens exist. Empir. Sect. 123. Mém. de l'acad. de Berlin, tom. ii. p. 316.
"Verum non posse comprehendi ex illâ Stoici Zenonis definitione arripuisse videbantur, qui ait id verum percipi posse, quod ita esset animo impressum ex eo unde esset, ut esse non posset ex eo unde non esset. Quod brevius planiusque sic dicitur, his signis verum posse comprehendi, quæ signa non potest habere quod falsum est." Augustin, contra Acad. ii. 5. See also Sext. Empir. adv.
Diogenes Laertius, lib. iv. in Arcesil. Vid. Lactant. Instit. iii. 6. Lucullus, 6. Augustin. contr. Acad. iii. 17. Lucullus, 18, 24. Augustin. contr. Acad. iii. 39. See Sext. Empir. adv. Log. i. 166., etc., p. 405. Acad. Quæst. i. 13; Lucullus, 23, 38; de Nat. Deor. i. 5; Orat. 71. "Tu autem te negas infracto remo neque columbæ collo commoveri.
Lucullus, 6 with 13. Lucullus, 13, 21, 40. Empir. Pyrrh. Hypot. 1, 11. Cicero terms these three impressions, "visio probabilis; quæ ex circumspectione aliquâ et accuratâ consideratione fiat; quæ non impediatur." Lucullus, 11. Pyrrh. Hypot. i. 33. Numen. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv. 7. Lucullus, 31, 34; de Off. ii. 2; de Fin. v. 26. Quinct. xii. 1. Lucullus, 22, et alibi; Tusc. Quæst. ii. 2.
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