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that many such things should happen. As,lled prophetic] dreams are, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, on mentioning something, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, however, especially all such as are extravagant, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, and those in the fulfilment of which the dredizhi1(COMamers have no initiative, then, to be classed as mere coincidences, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, to him who has seen it, such as in the casedizhi1(COM of a sea-fight, nor are they design, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, rather, indeed, the dream is, should this not happen also in sleep? The probabidizhi1(COMlity is, so, in the parallel instance, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a persdizhi1(COMon,