[Footnote 63: Myers, _Human Personality_, ii. 328, 329.] [Footnote 64: _Pharsal._, vi. _ad fin._] [Footnote 65: _Theb._, 4. 405 _ff._] [Footnote 66: _Met._, ii. 28.] [Footnote 67: _In Vat._, 6.] [Footnote 68: _An._, ii. 28.] [Footnote 69: _N.H._, 30. 5.] [Footnote 70: Suet., _Nero_, 34.] [Footnote 71: _N.H._, 30. 5] [Footnote 72: Dio Cassius, 77. 15.] [Footnote 73: _Apollon. Tyan._, 4. 16.] V VISIONS OF THE DEAD IN SLEEP In most of the Greek and Roman stories that survive, the wraiths of the dead are represented as revisiting their friends on earth in sleep. These instances I have not, as a rule, troubled to collect, for they cannot strictly be classed as ghost stories; but since the influence of the dead was generally considered to be exercised in this way, I shall give a few stories which seem particularly striking. That it was widely believed that the dead could return at night to those whom they loved is proved by the touching inscription in which a wife begs that her husband may sometimes be allowed to revisit her in sleep, and that she may soon join him. The most interesting passage that has come down to us, dealing with the whole question of the power of the dead to appear to those whom they love in dreams, is undoubtedly Quintilian's Tenth Declamation. The fact that the greatest teacher of rhetoric of his day actually chose it as a subject for one of his model speeches shows how important a part it must have played in the feelings of educated Romans of the time. The story is as follows.