Somnium Scipionis
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. == Textual history == The Somnium Scipionis is a portion of the sixth and final book of Cicero's De re publica, but because parts of Cicero's whole work are missing, Somnium Scipionis represents nearly all that remains of the sixth book. The main reason that the Somnium Scipionis survived was because in the fifth century, the Latin writer Macrobius wrote a Neoplatonic commentary on the work, in which he excerpted large portions of Cicero.