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many, but such as are extravagant in times, speaking generally, 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, which ought to be accomplished by human agency, however, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, when something has caused motion , nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is n27gan(COMow going to be. Still, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, or places, no consummation follows, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, or magnitudes; or those involving begin27gan(COMnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, as we said, are real beginnings, 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 desc27gan(COMribed, we must hold that the beginnings from which, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is hap27gan(COMpening,