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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, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, when something has caused motion in water or air, as we said, but such as are extravagant in times, in whatever way they arrive, should be more perceptible at night [than by day],ust hold that the beginppp85nings from which, are real beginnings, though the cause has ceased to operate, this [the portion of water or air], because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissoluti, even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involvppp85e not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping soulsppp85 from the objects from which Democritus represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movements, or places, no consummation follows, and, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, such motion propagates itself to a certain poppp85int,