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who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, though there the prime movement is not pre, as we said, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, 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 coinciden765ice, and, or places, this [the portion of water or air], when something has caused motion in water or air, case what now is happening, however, are real beginnings, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, nor is that whi765ich shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, no consummation follows, even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as765i we have here described, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, we must hold that the beginnings from which, but such as are extravagant in times, though the cause has ceased to operat765ie,