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1 I | People do, indeed, add the word "maker" or "poet" to the
2 III | add also that the Dorian word for "doing" is dran, and
3 V | in the full sense of the word bad, the ludicrous being
4 VIII | that in our sense of the word is one. As therefore, in
5 XVIII| in Agathon’s sense of the word: "is probable," he says, "
6 XX | Letter, Syllable, Connecting Word, Noun, Verb, Inflection
7 XX | metrical science.~A Connecting Word is a nonsignificant sound,
8 XXI | though within the whole word no element is significant),
9 XXI | are both significant. A word may likewise be triple,
10 XXI | to Father Zeus]."~Every word is either current, or strange,
11 XXI | By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general
12 XXI | among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in
13 XXI | Plainly, therefore, the same word may be at once strange and
14 XXI | to the same people. The word sigynon, "lance," is to
15 XXI | term to which the proper word is relative. Thus the cup
16 XXI | proportion there is at times no word in existence; still the
17 XXI | wineless cup".~A newly-coined word is one which has never been
18 XXI | for hiereus, "priest."~A word is lengthened when its own
19 XXI | syllable is inserted. A word is contracted when some
20 XXI | both is one."~An altered word is one in which part of
21 XXII | for the strange (or rare) word, the metaphorical, the ornamental,
22 XXII | take a strange (or rare) word, a metaphor, or any similar
23 XXII | the alteration of a single word by Euripides, who employed
24 XXV | language. We may note a rare word, as in oureas men proton, "
25 XXV | for the Cretans use the word eueides, "well-flavored"
26 XXV | parocheken de pleo nux, where the word pleo is ambiguous.~Or by
27 XXV | metaphor.~Again, when a word seems to involve some inconsistency
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