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Book I Chapter 16 · I.16.2.7–I.16.2.8
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p. 3882 Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου · 7
ἐρυθρὸν δὲ δὴ μέλανι λευκῷ τε κραθὲν ἁλουργοῦν· ὄρφνινον δὲ ὅταν τούτοις μεμιγμένοις καυθεῖσί τε μᾶλλον συγκραθῇ μέλαν· πυρρὸν δὲ ξανθοῦ τε καὶ φαιοῦ κράσει γίγνεται, φαιὸν δὲ λευκοῦ τε καὶ μέλανος· τὸ δὲ ὠχρὸν λευκοῦ ξανθῷ μιγνυμένου· λαμπρῷ δὲ λευκὸν συνελθὸν καὶ εἰς μέλαν κατακορὲς ἐμπεσὸν κυανοῦν χρῶμα ἀποτελεῖται· κυανοῦ δὲ λευκῷ κεραννυμένου γλαυκόν· πυρροῦ δὲ μέλανι πράσιον.
2 Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου · 8
Τὰ δ’ ἄλλα ἀπὸ τούτων σχεδὸν δῆλα, αἷς ἂν ἀφομοιούμενα μίξεσι διασῴζοι τὸν εἰκότα μῦθον. Εἰ δέ τις τούτων ἔργῳ σκοπούμενος βάσανον λαμβάνοι, τὸ τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης καὶ θείας φύσεως ἠγνοηκὼς ἂν εἴη διάφορον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 16
p. 3892 Plato, Timaeus 67c-68d, part 7
Red blended with black and white produces purple; and a dusky hue results when these have been mixed and burned and black is blended in more strongly. Flame red comes from a mixture of golden yellow and gray, and gray from white and black; pale yellow comes from white mixed with golden yellow.463
White combined with brightness and plunged into an intense black produces dark blue; dark blue mixed with white produces pale blue; and flame red mixed with black produces leek green.464
2 Plato, Timaeus 67c-68d, part 8
From these examples it is fairly clear to which mixtures the remaining colors may be likened so as to preserve the likelihood of the account. But if someone were to investigate these matters in practice and put them to the test, he would be failing to recognize the difference between human and divine nature.465
Socrates
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