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beginnings from which, are real beginnings, this [the portion of water or air], 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 represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movements, no consummation follows, but such as are extravagant in times, even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such122vv beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, when something has caused motion in water o122vvr air, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, and, in whatever way th, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, or places, as we said, while yet the persons who see the dream hol122vvd 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, though the cause has ceased to operate, and these constitute natural tokens of certain even122vvts,