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1 IX   |     poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen—what
2 IX   |   that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen.
3 IX   |   is credible: what has not happened we do not at once feel sure
4 IX   |   be possible; but what has happened is manifestly possible:
5 IX   | otherwise it would not have happened. Still there are even some
6 IX   |   events that have actually happened should not conform to the
7 IX   |     be greater than if they happened of themselves or by accident;
8 XXIII| single period, and all that happened within that period to one