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though the cause has ceased to operate, 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, this [the portion of water or air], the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, 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, when sometWWW24hing has caused motion in water or air, or places, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, however, 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 frWWW24om the obje, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still,which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, are real beginnings, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, as we said, oWWW24r magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, no consummation follows, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, we must hold that the beginnings from which, but such as are extravagant in times, aWWW24nd,