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no consummation follows, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, speaking generally, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, however, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, and these constitute natural tokse(34kj(COMens of certain events, or places, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, many, the given token was derived, as we said, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now gse(34kj(COMoing to be. Still, 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,so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, but such as are extravagant ise(34kj(COMn times, we must hold that the beginnings from which, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the beginnings [of the event to which it p, are real beginnings, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. Sse(34kj(COMo,