Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero 46.1   (ca. A.D. 98-117): Numquam antea somniare solitus occisa demum matre vidit per quietem navem sibi regenti exortum gubernaculum trahique se ab Octavia uxore in artissimas tenebras et modo pinnatarum fomicarum multitudine oppleri, modo a simularcis gentium ad Pompei theatrum dedicatarum circumiri arcerique progressu. Although he [Nero] had never before been in the habit of dreaming, after he had killed his mother it seemed to him that he was steering a ship in his sleep and that the helm was wrenched from his hands; that he was dragged, and that he was now covered with a swarm of thick wings, and now surrounded by the statues of the nations which had been dedicated in Pompeius' theater and stopped in his tracks.  (J. C. Rolfe, trans.)