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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 coincidence, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, even though the events do not come to pass.

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