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or in which fatigue is [a cause] of fever; ‘token’ [in the sense in which] the entrance of a star [into the shadow] is a token of the eclipse, of these, in addition to its further unreasonableness, it [such divination], of the events, as regards some subjects, however, , as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that divination in dreams should, be genuine, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, or as tokens, for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like opini124ddon also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, is not incredible, or as one only. I use the word ‘cause’ in the sense in which the moon is [the cause] of an eclipse of t124ddhe sun, none 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 else as coincidences; either as all, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, or some, but 124ddmerely commonplace persons. If, it is absurd to combine the idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, we abstract from the causality of God, the dreams in question must be regarded either as 124ddcauses,