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As when painters color many-hued sacrificial offerings,
Both men, by reason of their skill, very expert in their art,
They grasp many-colored pigments in their hands,
Then, having mixed them in harmony, the ones more, the others less,
Out of these they compose forms similar to all things,
Creating trees, men, and women,
Wild beasts and birds, water-nourished fish,
And long-lived gods, the greatest in honors:
In this way may your mind not succumb to the error that it is from elsewhere [scil. than from the four elementary roots]
That comes the source of all the innumerable mortal things whose existence is evident,
But know this exactly, once you have heard the word of a god.