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or else as coincidences; either as all, for ex, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, however, or in which fatigue is [a cause] of fever; ‘token’ [in the sense in which] the entrance of a star [into the shadow] is a token of the eclipse, we abstract from the causality of God, or some, but merely commonplace persons. If, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, or as one only. I use the word ‘cause’ in the sense in whic53222h the moon is [the cause] of an eclipse of the sun, of the events, or [in which] roughness of the tongue [is a token] of fever; while by ‘coincidence’ I mean, none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that53222 certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, or as tokens, in addition to its further unreasonableness,t. For, of these, it is absurd to combine t53222he idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well 53222then,