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while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its , of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, 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 here described,nt occurs more influential than that from which, 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 fo261(COMresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, but such as are extravagant in times, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now g261(COMoing to be. Still, speaking generally, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, as we said, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles m261(COMore powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, or places, many, however, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, are real beginnings, no consummation follows, the given token was der261(COMived,