Scaife ATLAS

Poetics (1.6-1.10)

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Rhythm alone without tune is employed by dancers in their representations, for by means of rhythmical gestures they represent both character and experiences and actions.[*]

But the art which employs words either in bare prose or in metres,

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either in one kind of metre or combining several, happens up to the present day to have no name.

For we can find no common term to apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus[*] and to the Socratic dialogues:

nor again supposing a poet were to make his representation in iambics or elegiacs or any other such metre—except that people attach the word poet(maker)to the name of the metre and speak of elegiac poets and of others as epic poets.

Thus they do not call them poets in virtue of their representation but apply the name indiscriminately in virtue of the metre.

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