An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.

The Table of Dreams, Visions, Reve∣lations, &c.

The severall heads are to be sound by the figures in the Margin.

• JUpiter sendeth a dream to Agamem∣non, 1
• Cyrus King of Persia his dream, 2
• Socrates foresaw in his dreams, that his Scholler Plato would be an excellent Orator and Philosopher, 3
• Hippocrates his dream, 4
• Alexander descended from Hercules by Carinus, and from Aeacus on his Mothers side, by Neoptolemus; his dream, 5
• Sophocles his dream. 6
• Aeneas Seneca his dream, the night af∣ter he undertook the Tutorship of Se∣neca, 7
• Fudemus a Cyprian his dream, 8
• Aspatia the daughter of Hermotimus, her dream. 9
• The Mother of a certain Souldier, her dream. 10
• Aesculapius of Athens his prescription by Oracle to Plutarch an Athenian, 11
• Themistocles his Vision. 12
• Lucullus going to Hellespont, his Vi∣sion, 13
• Marcorius, a Physitian of Augustus Caesar, his dream. 14
• Laodice the Wife of Seleucus, her dream, 15
• Publius Decius, Tribune of the Roman Souldiers, his dream. 16
• Gracchus, brother of Tyberius his dream, 17
• Calphurnia, Wife of Julius Caesar, her vision predicting his death, 18
• Cornelius his foresight of his death, 19
• A beholder of Playes, his dream, 20
• Great Sfortia his dream, 21
• Malgepa, an Archer to Galeacius Sfor∣tia, his dream. 22
• ...

• Mark-Anthonie Taurell, Duke of Gua∣stella his dream, 23
• Horace Perusine, servant of Alexander Medices Duke of the Florentines, his dream, 24
• Baptista & Cardanum his Vision, with a voyce speaking to him at the instant of his Mothers death, she dying far distant from the place where he had this vision. 25
• Ulysses his contrary dreams, 26
• ••indarus a Lyrick Poet his dream, 27
• Phail King of the Phocians, his dream, 28
• Aristomenes King of the Messenians, his dream. 29
• Alexander King of Macedonia, under∣stood by a dream, that the right hand of Cassandra would prove mortal to him, 30
• Alcibiades his dream, 31
• King Croesus his Vision. 32
• Polycrates daughter of a Tyrant of the Samians, her vision, 33
• Verses presented unto Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus in his sleep, 34
• The like dream had Simon of Athens, 35
• Socrates his construction of a verse of Homer read unto him, 36
• Aterius Rufus a Roman Knight, his vision, 37
• Julius Caesar not long before he was murthered, seemed to himself in his sleep sometimes to fly above the clouds, sometimes to joyn his right hand to Jupiter, 38
• Helius Cuma, one of Caesar's friends, his most fearful dream the night be∣fore his murther, 39
• Nero affrighted with dreams and evi∣dent signs of things to come, 40
• Galba the Emperour his dream a little before his death, 41
• Domitian his dreams immediately before he was slain. 42
• Anthonie Carocalla Emperour, his vi∣sion a little before he was murthered, 43
• Himerea her vision, 44
• Cicero his vision. 45
• Quintus Catulus his vision, 46
• Vespasian the Father, his Vision, 47
• Julian his Vision the night before his being declared Emperour, 48
• Stipo the Philosopher his vision, 49
• Hippias the sonne of Pisisttratus his dream, 50
• The Mother of Dionysius of Syracusa, her vision when she conceived him, 51
• Astyages Cyrus his dreams, 52
• Cyrus King of the Assyrians, his dream, 53
• Antigonus his dream concerning Mi∣thridates, 54
• Arcea, Mother of Augustus Caesar, her Vision. 55
• Octavius his dream concerning his son Octavius. 56
• Vespasian his confidence of his sons suc∣ceeding him. 57
• Adrian his vision before his being or∣dained Emperour, 58
• Alexander's visions whilest he assaulted the City of Tyre, 59
• Eumenes his wonderful vision, 60
• The Priests of Proserpina their vision, 61
• Hannibal Captain of the Carthagini∣ans, his vision. 62
• Amandatus, servant of Mardonius, his vision, 63
• Xerxes his dreams. 64
• The Spartans, Collicratidas being Captain, about to fight with the Athe∣nians, the Soothsayers disswade them, 65
• Pyrrhus King of the Epirots, his dream when he besieged Sparta. 66
• Mithridates his vision, which foreshewed things to come. 67
• Cneius Pompeius his vision before the Pharsalian fight. 68
• Hecuba when she was great with child of Paris, her vision, 69
• Cambyses King of the Persians, his vision. 70
• Darius moves out of Susa, against Alexander, encouraged by a dream, 71
• ...

• Domitian his dream, 72
• Eziline, sirnamed Monk, a bloody Ty∣rant, his terrible Vision, 73
• The Mother of Phalaris her vision, 74
• Amilcar Captain of the Carthagini∣ans, his dream falsly expounded, 75
• Jupiter appears to T. Latinus, a man of the common people, 76
• Changius first Emperor of the Tartars, his vision. 77
• Juno appears to Hannibal Captain of the Carthaginians. 78
• Valens the Emperour his vision, 79
• Hippias son of Pisistratus, his vision, 80
• Sabbacus King of the Aethiopians, his vision. 81
• Sethon King of Egypt, Priest of Vul∣can, his vision. 82