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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, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, we must hold that the beginnings from which, speaking generally, however, as we said, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical wi44vvth that which is now going to be. Still, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, are real beginnings, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, many,44vv or places,ointed] does not take place. So, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc44vv. of future events] as we have here described, but such as are extravagant in times, no consummation follows, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, the following would be a better explanation of it than that p44vvrop,