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1 II | objects of imitation are men in action, and these men
2 II | men in action, and these men must be either of a higher
3 II | follows that we must represent men either as better than in
4 II | painting. Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are,
5 II | Homer, for example, makes men better than they are; Cleophon
6 II | Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better
7 IV | only to philosophers but to men in general; whose capacity,
8 IV | limited. Thus the reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness
9 IV | and the actions of good men. The more trivial sort imitated
10 IV | and the praises of famous men. A poem of the satirical
11 VI | is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of
12 VI | Now character determines men’s qualities, but it is by
13 XIII| Thyestes, or other illustrious men of such families.~A well-constructed
14 XV | the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent,
15 XX | beginning of a sentence—as men, etoi, de.~A Noun is a composite
16 XX | one or many, as "man" or "men"; or the modes or tones
17 XXIV| a second is or becomes, men imagine that, if the second
18 XXV | Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides,
19 XXV | may answer, "This is how men say the thing is." applies
20 XXV | rare word, as in oureas men proton, "the mules first [
21 XXV | metaphorical, as "Now all gods and men were sleeping through the
22 XXV | didomen) de hoi, and to men hou (ou) kataputhetai ombro.~
23 XXV | impossible that there should be men such as Zeuxis painted. "
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