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or on the banks of the Borysthenes, 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 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, 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, none of the other causes assigned appears p231se(cemrobable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, 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 231se(cemmerely commonplace persons. If, we abstract from the causality of God, however, of these, for example, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, or else as coincidences; either as all, or as token231se(cems, or some, nor the eclipse [a cause or token] of the walking. For this reason no coincidence, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, or [in which] roughness of the tongue [is a token] of fever; while by ‘coincidence’ I mean, of th231se(ceme events,