999a【全.套◆S_片】

while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the 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 described, speaking generally,principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nough999at. For, however, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, but such as are extravagant in times, or places, as we said, we must999a hold that the beginnings from which, are real beginnings, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, no consumma999ation follows, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, and these constitute natural tokens of certain ev999aents,