![]() ![]() Even when a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse, the name of poet is by custom given to the author and yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common but the meter, so that it would be right to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet. ![]() People do, indeed, add the word ‘maker’ or ‘poet’ to the name of the meter, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet, but the verse that entitles them all to the name. For there is no common term we could apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and the Socratic dialogues on the one hand and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar meter. ![]() There is another art which imitates by means of language alone, and that either in prose or verse- which verse, again, may either combine different meters or consist of but one kind- but this has hitherto been without a name. ![]()
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