Somnium Scipionis, Part X

But afterwards, entertained by a royal splendor, long into the night we prolonged our conversation, while the old man said nothing except about Africanus and remembered not only all his deeds but also his sayings. Afterwards, as we scattered to sleep, sleep embraced me, tired both from my journey and since I had remained awake until late at night, closer than it was accustomed to. There (indeed I believe from what we had said; for it generally happens that our thoughts and conversations bring about in sleep something such as Ennius writes about Homer, of whom he, awake, was certainly very often accustomed to thinking and speaking) Africanus showed himself to me in that form which was more familiar to me from his picture than from himself; when I recognized whom, indeed I shuddered; but he says, “Be present in my mind and disregard your fear, Scipio, and relate to memory what I shall say.