Meanings
- not comparableOf seven colors.
He did not deny that there seemed to be other colors, citing Ptolemy's assertion that the bow appeared septicolored; but the superfluous hues he attributed, following Aristotle closely, to mixture and contrast.
1959, Carl Benjamin Boyer, The Rainbow from Myth to Mathematics, page 72
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