Ocellus Lucanus On the Nature of the Universe (Taylor 1831)

that the three following things should be present. In the first place, the body which yields to the touch, and which is the subject of all generated natures. But this will be an universal recipient, and a signature of generation itself, having the same relation to the things that are generated from it, as water to taste, silence to soundIn the original, και ψοφος προς σιγην, instead of which it is necessary to read και σιγη προς ψοφον (and silence to sound), conformably to the above translation. See the Notes to my translation of the First Book of Aristotle's Physics, p. 73, &c., in which the reader will find a treasury of information from Simplicius concerning matter., darkness to light, and the matter of artificial forms to the forms themselves. For water is tasteless and devoid of quality, yet is capable of receiving the sweet and the bitter, the sharp and the salt. Air, also, which is formless with respect to sound, is the recipient of words and melody. And darkness, which is without colour, and without form, becomes the recipient of splendour, and of the yellow colour and the white; but whiteness pertains to the statuary's art, and to the art which fashions figures from wax. Matter, however, has a relation in a different manner to the statuary's art; for in matter all things prior to generation are in potentiality, but