17hh【全.套◆S_片】

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,hough well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events,17hh we must hold that the beginnings from which, speaking generally, but such as are extravagant in times, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in t, no c17hhonsummation follows, or places, however, as we said, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, or magnitudes; or th17hhose involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, are real beginnings, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is h17hhappening,