This paper explores the language of dream reports of Ptolemaios, katochos “recluse” in the Serapeum at Memphis in the 2nd cent. BCE, particularly focusing on the pattern regularly introducing the dream: it includes ἐνύπνιον (as the word for the dream), a predicate of visual perception, and οἴομαι, which marks the transition to the dream narration. As testified by a long-standing tradition of...