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Aristotle, Poetics
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[1459a][1] kai hosa alla toiauta. dia gar to mê einai en tois kuriois poiei to mê idiôtikon en têi lexei hapanta ta toiauta: ekeinos de touto êgnoei. estin de mega men to hekastôi tôn eirêmenôn [5] prepontôs chrêsthai, kai diplois onomasi kai glôttais, polu de megiston to metaphorikon einai. monon gar touto oute par' allou esti labein euphuïas te sêmeion esti: to gar eu metapherein to to homoion theôrein estin. tôn d' onomatôn ta men dipla malista harmottei tois dithurambois, hai de [10] glôttai tois hêrôikois, hai de metaphorai tois iambeiois. kai en men tois hêrôikois hapanta chrêsima ta eirêmena, en de tois iambeiois dia to hoti malista lexin mimeisthai tauta harmottei tôn onomatôn hosois kan en logois tis chrêsaito: esti de ta toiauta to kurion kai metaphora kai kosmos. [15] peri men oun tragôidias kai tês en tôi prattein mimêseôs estô hêmin hikana ta eirêmena. peri de tês diêgêmatikês kai en metrôi mimêtikês, hoti dei tous muthous kathaper en tais tragôidiais sunistanai dramatikous kai peri mian praxin holên kai teleian [20] echousan archên kai mesa kai telos, hin' hôsper zôion hen holon poiêi tên oikeian hêdonên, dêlon, kai mê homoias historiais tas suntheseis einai, en hais anankê ouchi mias praxeôs poieisthai dêlôsin all' henos chronou, hosa en toutôi sunebê peri hena ê pleious, hôn hekaston hôs etuchen echei pros allêla. hôsper [25] gar kata tous autous chronous hê t' en Salamini egeneto naumachia kai hê en Sikeliai Karchêdoniôn machê ouden pros to auto sunteinousai telos, houtô kai en tois ephexês chronois eniote ginetai thateron meta thateron, ex hôn hen ouden ginetai telos. schedon de hoi polloi tôn poiêtôn touto [30] drôsi. dio hôsper eipomen êdê kai tautêi thespesios an phaneiê Homêros para tous allous, tôi mêde ton polemon kaiper echonta archên kai telos epicheirêsai poiein holon: lian gar an megas kai ouk eusunoptos emellen esesthai ho muthos, ê tôi megethei metriazonta katapeplegmenon têi poikiliai. [35] nun d' hen meros apolabôn epeisodiois kechrêtai autôn pollois, hoion neôn katalogôi kai allois epeisodiois [dis] dialambanei tên poiêsin. hoi d' alloi peri hena poiousi kai peri hena chronon kai mian praxin polumerê,
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This text is based on the following book(s):
Aristotle. ed. R. Kassel, Aristotle's Ars Poetica. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1966.
OCLC: 8250552
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