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A25906 The interpretation of dreams digested into five books by that ancient and excellent philosopher, Artimedorus / compiled by him in Greek, and translated afterwards into the Latine, the Italian, the French, and Spanish tongues, and now more exactly rendered into English ...; Oneirocritica. English Artemidorus, Daldianus.; Valerius Maximus.; R. W. (Robert Wood) 1644 (1644) Wing A3799; ESTC R9580 70,119 204

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