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Quotation from History of Animals by Aristotle
“and not only men appear to dream, but horses, oxen, sheep, goats, dogs, and all viviparous quadrupeds. Dogs show this by barking in their sleep”
History of Animals, Book IV, Ch. X, §1, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862)
Part of a survey of sleep across the animal kingdom, consistent with the argument of On Prophesying by Dreams that dreams are natural.
Citation: "and not only men appear to dream, but horses, oxen, sheep, goats, dogs, and all viviparous quadrupeds. Dogs show this by barking in their sleep" — Aristotle, History of Animals, Book IV, Ch. X, §1, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862). (id aristotle-history-of-animals-q4)
