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 1 1|        tidings of many distinctive qualities of things, from which the
 2 1|          multitudes of distinctive qualities of all sorts; whence it
 3 1|     announces only the distinctive qualities of sound, and, to some few
 4 4|             which shows that their qualities are not due to their drawing
 5 4| philosophers assert that water has qualities like those of the earth
 6 4|            proper to one. For [the qualities by which they explain taste
 7 5|          the fact that Savours are qualities of nutrient matter, the
 8 6|        divisible, are its sensible qualities—Colour, Savour, Odour, Sound,
 9 6|           their name [of "sensible qualities"] from the very circumstance
10 6|           not so, [if its sensible qualities were not divisible, pari
11 6|      perceptible at all. For these qualities are the objects of sense-perception.
12 6|            things without sensible qualities]? Is it by Reason? But they
13 6|          Sound, and other sensible qualities are limited. For in all
14 6|         then, the several sensible qualities of things are to be reckoned
15 6|      magnitudes and their sensible qualities escape notice, and the reason
16 6|        stated] that their sensible qualities, whether colours or tastes
17 7|          sweet, and has many other qualities, [while its numerical oneness
18 7|           the fact is not that the qualities are really separable in