qualis enim caecis poterit color esse tenebris? lumine quin ipso mutatur propterea quod recta aut obliqua percussus luce refulget; pluma columbarum quo pacto in sole videtur, quae sita cervices circum collumque coronat; namque alias fit uti claro sit rubra pyropo, interdum quodam sensu fit uti videatur inter caeruleum viridis miscere zmaragdos.
For what colour can there be in blind darkness? Why, a colour is changed by the light itself, according as the brightness responds to a direct or oblique impact of light; in this way the doves plumage shows itself in the sun, lying about the nape and encircling the neck; for at times it is red as the blazing carbuncle, again view it in a certain way and it comes to appear a fusion of emerald green with blue.
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