Thirdly, it should be like.The meaning probably is like the traditional person, e.g. Achilles must not be soft nor Odysseus stupid. Cf. Horace Ars Poet. 120 famam sequere. This is different from making the character good and from making it appropriate in the sense of the word as used above.

Fourthly, it should be consistent. Even if the original be inconsistent and offers such a character to the poet for representation, still he must be consistently inconsistent.

An example of unnecessary badness of character is Menelaos in the Aristotle has a personal distaste for this character on the ground that Euripides made him a creature meaner than the plot demands.;

of character that is unfitting and inappropriate the lament of Odysseus in the A dithyramb by Timotheus. Cf. Aristot. Poet. 26.3. and Melanippe’s speechA fragment survives (Eur. Fr. 484 (Nauck)). Euripides seems to have given her a knowledge of science and philosophy inappropriate to a woman.;

of inconsistent character Iphigeneia in Aulis, for the suppliant Iphigeneia is not at all like her later character.