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A nearly literal translation would be : — They digest the 
marine animal in a caldron over the fire, and the blood 
when it associates with heat liquefies and develops colour, 
and part becomes yellow, part dark blue (?), and another part 
changes to another colour. And whatsoever you dip in, 
everything that has come in contact with the blood is changed 
in colour to the colour thereof; but the purple dye rejoices 
in association with the sun, and the solar beam gives it fire 
and makes more intense and dazzling its splendour, which 
is rendered purple by means of the fire aloft. 
