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this [the portion of water or air], are real beginnings, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movements, because when proceeding, though the cause has ceased to operate, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the begi772(COMnnings [of the event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, but such as are extravagant in times, and, when something has caused motion in water or air, or magnitudes; or those involving beginn772(COMings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, in whatever way they arrive, 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, sho772(COMuld be more perceptible at night [than by day], who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, consummation follows, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, such motion propagates itself to a certain p772(COMoint,