Praeterea quoniam non certis certa figuris est natura coloris, et omnia principiorum formamenta queunt in quovis esse nitore, cur ea quae constant ex illis non pariter sunt omne genus perfusa coloribus in genere omni? conveniebat enim corvos quoque saepe volantis ex albis album pinnis iactare colorem, et nigros fieri nigro de semine cycnos aut alio quovis uno varioque colore.
Besides, since no fixed colour is allotted to each fixed shape, and all configurations of first-beginnings may be found in any given hue, why are the things that consist of those shapes not likewise dyed in colours of all kinds in every kind of thing? For it were fitting that crows also as they fly should often throw off a white colour from white feathers, and swans be made black from black seed, or indeed of any other colour single or variegated.
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