 His thought seems to be that the mind possesses a certain autonomy. Explanations of an agent’s actions are always available after the fact. ‘The outcome reveals its causes’ (De fato 37). Explanations for voluntary action do not terminate, as they arguably would if the Epicureans were right about the swerve, in uncaused motions, and we are not, as it might then seem, playthings of chance. Rather it is the nature of the mind, and the characteristics of the minds of the agents who act, which are the causes of their voluntary actions. But it is not because our actions are predetermined, not because they are fated, that we act as we do.