Note 093
From The Invasion of Syria,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

He dreamt that he was at Thessalonica, a harmless and unmeaning vision; but his soothsayer, or his cowardice, understood the sure omen of a defeat concealed in that inauspicious wordAncient Greek Give to another the victory (Theoph. p. 286. Zonaras, tom. ii. l. xiv. p. 88).

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