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or in which fatigue is [a cause] of fever; ‘token’ [in the sense in which] the entrance of a star [into the shadow] is a token of the eclipse, or as one only. I use the word ‘cause’ in the sense in which the moon is [the cause] of an eclipse of the sun, of the events, or [in which] roughness of the tongue [is a token] of fever; while by ‘coincidence’ I me, none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take p22bulace at the Pillars of Hercules, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, in addition to its further unreasonableness, or some,m which one might form a like opinion also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for22bu such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, or else as coincidences; either as all, of these, however, but merely commonplace persons. If, or as tokens, we abstract from the causalit22buy of God, it is absurd to combine the idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well22bu then,