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Forms of words also are faulty, if they do not express an agreeable sound; for
instance, Dionysius the Brazen1 in
his elegiacs speaks of poetry as “
the scream of Calliope;
” both are sounds, but the metaphor is bad, because the sounds have no
meaning.2
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1 According to Athenaeus, p. 669, he was a poet and rhetorician who recommended the Athenians to use bronze money.
2 A scream is neither articulate nor agreeable, like the sound of poetry, although both are voices or sound, and to that extent the metaphor is correct.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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