Nunc age dicta meo dulci quaesita labore percipe, ne forte haec albis ex alba rearis principiis esse, ante oculos quae candida cernis, aut ea quae nigrant nigro de semine nata; nive alium quemvis quae sunt imbuta colorem, propterea gerere hunc credas, quod materiai corpora consimili sint eius tincta colore, nullus enim color est omnino materiai corporibus, neque par rebus neque denique dispar.
Now then, mark my words, which with sweet toil I have gathered, lest by chance you suppose these white things which you see bright before your eyes to be made of white first-beginnings, or those no colour, that are black to be born of seed that is black, or that the reason why they show any other colour which they may be imbued with is that the elements of matter are dyed with like colour. For there is no colour at all in the elements of matter, neither like the colour of things nor again unlike.
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