56(cn【全.套◆S_片】

many, 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,any dreams have no fulfilment is not strange, speaking generally, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, no c56(cnonsummation follows, as we said, however, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, are real beginnings, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, nor is that which shall here56(cnafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, we must hold that the beginnings from which, e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which,56(cn of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, the given token was der56(cnived,