ut mare, cum magni commorunt aequora venti, vertitur in canos candenti marmore fluctus; dicere enim possis, nigrum quod saepe videmus, materies ubi permixta est illius et ordo principiis mutatus et addita demptaque quaedam, continuo id fieri ut candens videatur et album, quod si caeruleis constarent aequora ponti seminibus, nullo possent albescere pacto; nam quocumque modo perturbes caerula quae sint, numquam in marmoreum possunt migrare colorem.
as the sea, when great winds have stirred up the surface, turns into hoary waves with a white sheen; for you could say that often what we see as black, when its matter is mixed up and the order of its first-beginnings changed, some being added and taken away, immediately thereafter seems to be bright and white. But if the surface of the deep were made of blue seeds, it could not in any way become white; for however you may jumble up things that are blue, they can never change into a shining white colour.
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