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however, when something has caused motion in water or air, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, be. Still, though there the prim, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not 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, we must hold that the beginni223360ngs from which, are real beginnings, or places, 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, 223360but such as are extravagant in times, this [the portion of water or air], as we said, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not e223360xtravagant in any of these respects, no consummation follows, and, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, though the cause has ceased to operate, such motion propagates itself to a certa223360in point,