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are real beginnings, in whatever way they arrive, 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, or places, consummation follows, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, when something has caused motion in water or air, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, such motion propagates itself 18jjj(coto a certain point, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, but such as are extravagant in times, this [the portion of water or air], even though the events do not come to pass.

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