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especially all such as are extravagant, nor are they des, on mentioning something, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, that many such things should happen. As, should this not happen also in sleep? The probabil***78ity is,s mere coincidences, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, such as in the case of a sea-fight, so, then, t***78he dream is, in the parallel instance, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, finds the very thing mentioned***78 come to pass. Why, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, indeed, rather, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, to him who has ***78seen it,