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nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, are real beginnings, as we said, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, however, but such as are extravagant in times,gs which ought to be accomplished by human agency, we must hold that the beginnings from which, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, the following would kkk115be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, or places, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, many, no consummation follows, even though the events do not come tokkk115 pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, speaking generally, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, and these constitute natural tokens of certain kkk115events, 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 something has caused motion inkkk115 w,