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e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, many, no consummation follows, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, but such as are extravagant in times, or places, however, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the begin,dreams 3ehave no fulfilment is not strange, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, we must hold that the beginnings from which, the given token was derived, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, as we said, are real beginning3es, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, speaking generally, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, even though th3ee events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought3e. For,