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or magnitudes, many, or places, as we said, are real beginnings, e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, we must hold that the beginnings from which, no consummation follows, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, though well-planned are by the operation of other prin2255cfciples more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, speaking generally, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, but such as are extravagant in times, for it is so too with many bodily t2255cfoms and weather-signs, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So,strange, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, while [the event to which i2255cft pointed was] still future, however, 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, the given token was d2255cferived,