# Onirocriticon 4.69

Artemidorus, Onirocriticon, Book 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/artemidorus/onirocriticon/4.69

Ὅτι οἱ θεοὶ τοῖς δεσπόταις τὸν αὐτὸν ἔχουσι λόγον, καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ θεῶν λόγῳ προείρηκα καὶ τὰ ἀποτελέσματα δέ σε οὐδὲν ἧττον διδάξει. καὶ τὸ νῦν εἰς ἐπίδειξιν τοῦ τοιούτου οὗτος ὁ ὄνειρος παρακείσθω. δοῦλος ἔδοξε μετὰ τοῦ Διὸς σφαιρίζειν. ἐφιλονείκησε τῷ δεσπότῃ καὶ ἐλευθερώτερον προσδιαλεγόμενος ἐμισήθη ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ζεὺς τὸν δεσπότην ἐσήμαινεν, ὁ δὲ σφαιρισμὸς τὴν ἐξ ἴσου ῥῆσιν καὶ φιλονεικίαν· φιλονείκως γὰρ οἱ σφαιρίζοντες παίζουσιν, ὁσάκις δʼ ἂν λάβωσι τὴν σφαῖραν, τοσαυτάκις ἀντικρούουσι. καὶ τὸ ὅλον δεσπόται γονεῖς διδάσκαλοι θεοὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἔχουσι λόγον.

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Artemidorus, Onirocriticon, ed. Roger A Pack. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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