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Περὶ ποιητικῆς

Περὶ ποιητικῆς Aristotle
22 Whenever a word seems to involve a contradiction, one should consider how many different meanings it might bear in the passage, e.g. in There the bronzen shaft was stayed,Hom. Il. 20.272: Nay but the weighty shaft of the warlike hero Aeneas Brake not the shield; for the gold, the gift of a god, did withstand it. Through two folds it drave, yet three were beneath, for Hephaestus, Crook-footed god, five folds had hammered; two were of bronze-work, Two underneath were of tin and one was of gold; there the bronzen Shaft of the hero was stayed in the gold. Problem: Since the gold was presumably outside for the sake of ornament, how could the spear he stayed in the gold and yet penetrate two folds? Bywater suggests as a solution that the plate of gold sufficed to stop the course of the spear, though the spear-point actually pierced it and indented the underlying plates of brass. we should ask in how many ways being stayed might be taken,
23 interpreting the passage in this sense or in that, and keeping as far as possible from the attitude which GlauconThis may well be the Glaucon mentioned in Plato’s Ion as an authority on Homer. describes
24 when he says that people make some unwarrantable presupposition and having themselves given an adverse verdict proceed to argue from it, and if what they think the poet has said does not agree with their own preconceived ideas, they censure him, as if that was what he had said.

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