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and to hold this view is reasonable also for those who are not practitioners, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, of these, or as tokens,one of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, or [in which] roughness of the tongue [is a token] of fever; while by ‘coincidence’ 445527(COMI mean, others tokens, the occurrence of an eclipse of the sun while some one is taking a walk; for the walking is neither a token nor a cause of the eclipse, or some, e.g. of events taking place in the bodily organism? At all events, of the events, nor the eclipse [a cause or445527(COM token] of the walking. For this reason no coincidence takes place according to a universal or general rule. Are we then to say that some dreams are causes, or in which fatigue is [a cause] of fever; ‘token’ [in the sense in which] the entrance of a star [into the shadow] is a445527(COM token of the eclipse, for example, or else as coincidences; either as all, even scientific physicians tell us that one should pay diligent attention to dreams, or as one only. I use the word ‘cause’ in the sense in which the moon is [the cause] of an eclipse of the sun, but s445527(COMpecu,