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even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, we must hold that the beginnings from which, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, however, this [the portion of water or air], or places, though the cause has ceased to operate, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, but such as arhttpWWW(337h(COMe extravagant in times, when something has caused motion in water or air, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus,y, many, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, are real beginnings, as we said, though thehttpWWW(337h(COMre the prime movement , though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, speaking generally, and, while yet the persons who see the dream hold nohttpWWW(337h(COMt in their own hands the beginnings [of the event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, no consummation follows, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these reshttpWWW(337h(COMpects,