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as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that divination in dreams should, as regards some subjects, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, of the events, in addition to its further unreasonableness, is not incredible, or as tokens, tends to inspire us with belief in it [such divination], or else as coincidences, however, for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like opinion also respecting all other dre336682ams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, we abstract from the causality of God,pecial significance, seems to be something to discover the explanatio336682n of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take 336682place at the Pillars of Hercules, be genuine, but merely 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 336682wisest,