Quin etiam quanto in partes res quaeque minutas distrahitur magis, hoc magis est ut cernere possis evanescere paulatim stinguique colorem; ut fit ubi in parvas partis discerpitur austrum: purpura poeniceusque color clarissimu multo, filatim cum distractum est, disperditur omnis; noscere ut hinc possis prius omnem efflare colorem particulas quam discedant ad semina rerum.
Moreover, the more minute the particles into which anything is pulled apart, the more readily it is perceived that the colour gradually fades away and is extinguished; as happens when purple wool is torn up into small parts: the purple and the scarlet colour, brightest of all, is wholly destroyed when the wool has been pulled apart thread wise; so that you may learn from this that the particles breathe away all their colour before they are dispersed apart into the seeds of things.
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