Dialogue

 1 Intro|     and is of a bright yellow colour. A shoot of gold which is
 2 Intro|   cooling, a stone of a black colour. When the earth is finer
 3 Intro|      flashing, and produces a colour like blood—to this we give
 4 Intro|      red and white produces a colour which we call auburn. The
 5 Intro| between the two, and a yellow colour. Hence they were more glutinous
 6 Intro|      when intermixed, but the colour of red or fire predominates,
 7 Intro|    bitter substance has a red colour, and this when mixed with
 8 Intro|       substance has an auburn colour, when new flesh is decomposed
 9 Intro|       the visual ray, a black colour is produced; if they are
10 Intro|      eye, and causes a bright colour. A more subdued light, on
11 Intro|       the eye, produces a red colour. Out of these elements all
12 Timae|       glittering and a yellow colour. A shoot of gold, which
13 Timae|       hard, and takes a black colour, is termed adamant. There
14 Timae|      certain stone of a black colour. A like separation of the
15 Timae|      the moisture, produces a colour like blood, to which we
16 Timae|       red and white gives the colour called auburn (Greek). The
17 Timae|   white, a light blue (Greek) colour is formed, as flame-colour
18 Timae|        and gave them a yellow colour; wherefore the sinews have
19 Timae|  circulates in the body has a colour such as we have described.
20 Timae|       with blood has a redder colour; and this, when mixed with
21 Timae|   grass; and again, an auburn colour mingles with the bitter
22 Timae|     visible, and have a white colour arising out of the generation