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（In regard to nouns, homonyms are most useful
to the sophist, for it is by their aid that he employs captious arguments, and
synonyms to the poet.
Instances of words that are both proper and synonymous are
“going” and “walking”: for these two
words are proper and have the same meaning.）1
It has already been stated, as we have said, in the Poetics,2 what each of these things3 is, how many kinds of
metaphor there are, and that it is most important both in poetry and in prose.
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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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