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For if people publish medical or scientific treatises in metre the custom is to call them poets. But Homer and Empedocles[*] have nothing in common except the metre, so that it would be proper to call the one a poet and the other not a poet but a scientist.

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Similarly if a man makes his representation by combining all the metres, as Chaeremon did when he wrote his rhapsody The Centaur, a medley of all the metres, he too should be given the name of poet.[*] On this point the distinctions thus made may suffice.

There are certain arts which employ all the means which I have mentioned, such as rhythm and tune and metredithyrambic and nomic poetry,[*] for example, and tragedy too and comedy. The difference here is that some use all these at once, others use now one now another.

These differences then in the various arts I call the means of representation.

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Since living persons[*] are the objects of representation, these must necessarily be either good men or inferiorthus only are characters normally distinguished, since ethical differences depend upon vice and virtuethat is to say either better than ourselves or worse or much what we are. It is the same with painters.

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