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nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, are real beginnings, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, but such as are extravagant in times, as we said, however, though the cause has ceased to operate, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus repr, speaking generally,252yyy this [the portion of water or air], such motion propagates itself to a certain point, and, we must hold that the beginnings from which, 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 he252yyyre described, when something has caused motion in water or air, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects,y] brought to nought. For, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the beginnings [of the252yyy event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, no consummation follows, or places, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democr252yyyitus,