[69] N.H., 30. 5.
[70] Suet., Nero, 34.
[71] N.H., 30. 5
[72] Dio Cassius, 77. 15.
[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.