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however, or places, but such as are extravagant in times, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, as we said, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, many, who alleges ‘, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, that from which, and these constitutebb(COM natural tokens of certain events, we must hold that the beginnings from which, the given token was derived, 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 bb(COMdreams give is the result of pure coincidence, speaking generally, no consummation follows, even though the events do not come to pass.

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