Moreover he added a clear model of the way different things come from the same:  'As when <B>painters</B> are decorating offerings, men through cunning well skilled in their craft- when they actually seize pigments of many colours in thir hands, mixing in harmony more of some and less of others, they produce from them forms resembling all things, creating trees and men and women, beasts and birds and water-bred fish, and long-lived gods, too, highest in honour:  so let not deception overcome your mind and make you think there is any other source of all the countless mortal things that are plain to see, but know this clearly, for the tale you hear comes from a god.'

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