Somnium Scipionis
Sixth book of Cicero's "De re publica" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the story by Cicero. For the book by Iain Pears, see The Dream of Scipio (novel).
The Dream of Scipio (Latin: Somnium Scipionis), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a (postulated fictional or real) dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he oversaw the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC.