Dialogue

 1 Intro|       with fire and water and mixed with them a ferment of acid
 2 Intro|     red colour, and this when mixed with black takes the hue
 3 Intro|     water. They were at first mixed together; but already in
 4 Intro|       is involuntary. This is mixed up with the view which,
 5 Intro|  could be formed. All was not mixed but one; and therefore it
 6 Timae| necessity—for the creation is mixed, being made up of necessity
 7 Timae|      black is more thoroughly mixed with them. Flame-colour (
 8 Timae|     considering these things, mixed earth with fire and water
 9 Timae|     was pure came away, and a mixed part which was composed
10 Timae|       thus producing a single mixed expression out of high and
11 Timae| redder colour; and this, when mixed with black, takes the hue