Ἱερείας ἐνύπνιον
priestess's dream
Translated by Catharine Roth17 May 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
But others say it should rather be called Himeraia's dream. A certain old woman [named] Himeraia, so they say, thought she saw herself taken up into the heavens, and indeed as she entered the palace of Zeus she beheld a red-haired man bound with an iron chain, below the royal throne. When she asked who he was, she [seemed] to hear, "the scourge of Sicily." So much for the dream. But some time later, seeing Dionysius ruling as tyrant,1 she told the dream to many and reported that he was the one she had seen. Dionysios was angered and put her to death.