Phœnomenon of Dreaming. 189

°Ppers and serpents cast their exuviæ at cer-ai11 times of the year; and because smoke,j^pour, fl&me, rise from bodies (at). *Be-es > he is not aware that, if these pellicles^ °ff" in the dark, (for it is then we fee^ ertl in dreams) colours and objects must. e ^en as much, and as well in the dark, as^ *he light; and if they fly off incessantly,v must be equally visible to us while a -^ a he as while we steep. But then this isEnough, that these smilar surfaces are, in-th^ntly ^n^ittcd from all bodies; but far-er many simulacra rerum are spontaneouslyDerated, which do not rife from anybody;, e fe are still floating up and down in thea ' r ; still changing; and by odd combina-0tls and encounters, make up the shapes of

(*) Principio, quoniam mittunt in rebus apertis 'Corpora res mult a ; partim diffufa solute ;

Polar a feu summn mittunt ; ignesque vaporem;

Pt partim contexta magis, condensaque ; ut olimCum veteres ponunt tunicas ajlate cicada ;

siituli cum membranas de corpora summoP* a scentes mittunt ; fjf item cum lubrica serpens

L

*uit in spinis vejlem

&œc quoniamfiunt ; tenuis quoque debet imago■db rebus mitti , summo de corpore eorum.

Ver. 52.

I Giants.