Arnobius writes that Fontus was the son of Janus and Juturna.

Jerome's reference, his remark that Lactantius was a pupil of Arnobius and the surviving treatise are all that we know about Arnobius.

Arnobius, similarly attempting to demonstrate the logical flaws in the Roman conception of divinity, offers what is perhaps the most extended discussion of the novensiles in any extant source, and lists seven authorities whose explanations of their identity strike him as mutually exclusive.

The upholders of this view point to passages in Scripture and in the Fathers, notably to the words of Paul ; and to the testimony of Cyprian, Arnobius, Lactantius, and to Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome and John Chrysostom.

Lactantius, a Latin-speaking native of North Africa, was a pupil of Arnobius and taught rhetoric in various cities of the Eastern Roman Empire, ending in Constantinople.

According to Arnobius, a Piso, most likely the Calpurnius Piso Frugi who was an annalist and consul in 133 BC, said that the novensiles were nine gods whose cult had been established in Sabine country at Trebia.

In Roman mythology, according to Arnobius, Puta presided over the pruning of trees and was a minor goddess of agriculture.

It was first printed at Strassburg in 1562, and has been reprinted several times, both separately and along with the writings of Minucius Felix, Cyprian or Arnobius.

Arnobius of Sicca ( died c. 330 ) was an Early Christian apologist, during the reign of Diocletian ( 284 – 305 ).

According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician at Sicca Veneria ( El Kef, Tunisia ), a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream.

This is due to an application of the term by Arnobius, and was never common either in Latin or English.

Servius and Arnobius both employed his erudition to their own ends. He possessed a library of 60, 000 volumes.

The Christian Arnobius, writing during Diocletian's reign, attributes financial concerns to provisioners of pagan services: The augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain ... fearing that their own arts be brought to nought, and that they may extort but scanty contributions from the devotees, now few and infrequent, cry aloud, ' The gods are neglected, and in the temples there is now a very thin attendance.

Arnobius, " a practitioner of the coarse and turgid style that is called African ", is a vigorous apologist for the Christian faith, more earnest in his defence of Christianity than perfectly orthodox in his tenets.

Christianizing Plato, he refutes pagan idolatry as filled with contradictions and openly immoral, and to demonstrate this point, his Books III through V abound with curious information gathered from reliable sources ( e. g. Cornelius Labeo ) concerning the forms of idolatrous worship, temples, idols, and the Graeco-Roman cult practice of his time, to the historian and mythographer's cautious delight, but all held up by Arnobius for Christian ridicule.

See, for example: the Epistle to Diognetus, The Shepherd of Hermas, and works by Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Clement of Alexandria Hippolytus of Rome, Origen, Irenaeus, and Arnobius.

The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed but blamed its destruction on pagans.

For the first seventy-eight authors Eusebius ( Historia ecclesiastica ) is the main source ; in the second section, beginning with Arnobius and Lactantius, he includes a good deal of independent information, especially as to western writers.

Arnobius ( citing Caesius ) states that the Etruscan Penates were named Fortuna, Ceres, Genius Iovialis and Pales ; according to Nigidius Figulus, they included those of Jupiter, Neptune, the infernal gods and mortal men.

The islands ' name is derived from the Latin name canariae insulae (" islands of dogs ") used by Arnobius, referring to the large dogs kept by the inhabitants of the islands.

The dii lucrii or dei lucrii are a collective of Roman deities mentioned by the Christian apologist Arnobius ( d. 330 AD ):

The Christian apologist Arnobius, in his extended debunking of traditional Roman deities, connects Inuus and Pales as guardians over flocks and herds.

Arnobius describes her as " a goddess important and powerful regarding bees, taking care of and protecting the sweetness of honey.

The early Christian apologist Arnobius notes other authorities who also regarded them as mortals who became gods.

A 4th-or 3rd-century BC inscription from Ardea reading neven deivo has been taken to refer to the Novensiles as nine deities .< ref > CIL I < sup > 2 </ sup >. 455 ; Vittore Pisani, ( 1943 ) p. 253 as quoted by G. C. L. Bakkum The Latin Dialect of the Ager Faliscus Amsterdam 2009 p. 62 ; Emil Vetter, " Di Novensiles Di Indigetes " in Indogermanische Forschungen LXII ( 1956 ) p. 1 .</ ref > Granius Flaccus and Aelius Stilo, Arnobius says, identify the Novensiles with the Muses, implying that they are nine in number.

Literary works also preserve some of Janus's cult epithets, such as Ovid's long passage of the Fasti devoted to Janus at the beginning of Book I ( 89-293 ), Tertullian, Augustine and Arnobius.

Writing around 300, one Arnobius of Numidia mentioned the existence of Christian communities in Achaia, Macedonia, and Epirus.

John Sheppard, in his analysis of dreams titled On Dreams ( 1847 ), lamented Coleridge's drug use as getting in the way of his poetry but argued: " It is probable, since he writes of having taken an ' anodyne ,' that the ' vision in a dream ' arose under some excitement of that same narcotic ; but this does not destroy, even as to his particular case, the evidence for a wonderfully inventive action of the mind in sleep ; for, whatever were the exciting cause, the fact remains the same ".

Cicero writes in De Natura Deorum that the Spartan ephors would sleep at the shrine of Pasiphaë, seeking prophetic dreams to aid them in governance.

Music critic Ken Emerson writes that the " apocalyptic romanticism " in Orbison's music was well-crafted for the films his songs appeared in in the 1980s because the music was " so over-the-top that dreams become delusions, and self-pity paranoia ", striking " a postmodern nerve ".

He writes that it is important for a layperson to seek assistance from an Alim ( Muslim scholar ) who could guide in the interpretation of dreams with a proper understanding of the cultural context and other such causes and interpretations.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

While procrastinating over the bar exam, he writes stories for newspapers and dreams about being a successful writer so he can move to Europe.

On constitutional matters, he writes with an insight achieved by the study of political philosophy, discussing in a masterly fashion the dreams of idealists and the schemes of government proposed by statesmen.

As an example, Gibson writes how one ‘ yes or no ’ decision by Cayce on the logo will impact the lives of the people in remote places who will manufacture the logos and how it will infect their dreams.

* In On the Road, Riverdale-educated Jack Kerouac writes about getting off at a subway stop in Riverdale: " Filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran, I took the Seventh Avenue Subway to the end of the line at 242nd Street, and there took a trolley into Yonkers ; in downtown Yonkers I transferred to an outgoing trolley and went to the city limits on the east bank of the Hudson River.

The historian Don Garden writes: " Unfortunately Duffy's dreams were on a higher plane than his practical skills as a legislator and the morals of those opposed to him.

Jerusalem based scholar Seth J. Frantzman writes that opposition to Hindu Nationalism and its denunciation by leftists as " fascist " or " racist " are related to their own antisemitism and opposition to Zionism, and that both Zionism and Hindu Nationalism are " united in the aspirations of unique peoples and states ", and " both grew out of a long suppressed and colonized peoples ' dreams for their own country free from foreign rule ".

* I sense that the novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3-although it writes much faster than I can spell.

Spirited tomboy Jo ( Katharine Hepburn ), who caters to the whims of their well-to-do Aunt March ( Edna May Oliver ), dreams of becoming a famous author and writes plays for her sisters to perform for the local children.

" She had set herself up for a prophetess ," he writes, " and gradually had gained, by her shrewdness, some influence among the natives as a dreamer, and expounder of dreams.

Alan Stivell writes in his book Telenn, la harpe bretonne of his first dreams of electric harps going back to the late 1950s.