99ss【全.套◆S_片】

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, we must hold that the beginnings from which, as we said, many, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, or places, speaking generally, 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 of99ss pure coincidence, but such as are extravagant in times, no consummation follows, are real beginnings, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘ema, however, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, though well-planned are by the operation of99ss other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events,as] still future, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, the gi99ssven token was derived, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Demo99sscritus,