(87) Aphrodite fitting these together with rivets of love. (88) One vision is produced by both the eyes. (89) Know that effluences flow from all things that have come into being. R. P. 166 h. (90) So sweet lays hold of sweet, and bitter rushes to bitter; acid comes to acid, and warm couples with warm. (91) Water fits better into wine, but it will not (mingle) with oil. R. P. 166 h. (92) Brass mixed with tin. (93) The berry of the blue elder is mingled with scarlet. (94) And the black colour at the bottom of a river arises from the shadow. The same is seen in hollow caves. (95) Since they (the eyes) first grew together in the hands of Kypris. (96) The kindly earth received in its broad funnels two parts of gleaming Nestis out of the eight, and four of Hephaistos. So arose white bones divinely fitted together by the cement of proportion. R. P. 175. (97) The spine (was broken). (98) And the earth, anchoring in the perfect harbours of Aphrodite, meets with these in nearly equal proportions, with Hephaistos and Water and gleaming Air—either a little more of it, or less of them and more of it. From these did blood arise and the manifold forms of flesh. R. P. 175 c. (99) The bell ... the fleshy sprout (of the ear).[564] (100)