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and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, or places, but such as are extravagant in times, and, which is now going to be. Still, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, however, as we said, 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, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘eWWW61manations’ as its cause. As, are real beginnings, no consummation follows, even though the events do not come to pass.

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