Kitap 4
If 't be outpoured with most exceeding shouts.
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Therefore the voice must be corporeal,
Since the long talker loses from his frame
Moreover, roughness in the sound
Comes from the roughness in the primal germs,
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As a smooth sound from smooth ones is create;
Nor have these elements a form the same
When the trump rumbles with a hollow roar,
As when barbaric Berecynthian pipe
Buzzes with raucous boomings, or when swans
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By night from icy shores of Helicon
With wailing voices raise their liquid dirge.
Thus, when from deep within our frame we force
These voices, and at mouth expel them forth,
The mobile tongue, artificer of words,
Makes them articulate, and too the lips
By their formations share in shaping them.
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Hence when the space is short from starting-point
To where that voice arrives, the very words
