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 1      I, 15|   ancient" witnesses I mean the poets and all other notable persons
 2     II, 11|        praised and eulogized by poets or prose-writers. Persons
 3     II, 22|    audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, "charm the crowd’
 4    III, 1 |       epic recitation: at first poets acted their tragedies themselves.
 5    III, 1 |         count for more than the poets, so it is in the contests
 6    III, 1 |   thought.~It was naturally the poets who first set the movement
 7    III, 1 |        well. Now it was because poets seemed to win fame through
 8    III, 1 |       poetical manner which the poets themselves have dropped;
 9    III, 2 |      are scantier than those of poets. Metaphor, moreover, gives
10    III, 3 |         comic as well as tragic poets. Others are too grand and
11    III, 4 |         deaf; and the one about poets’ verses, which are likened
12    III, 6 |       from this source that the poets draw expressions such as
13    III, 9 |         the strophes of the old poets. The free-running style
14    III, 10|      things. The similes of the poets do the same, and therefore,
15    III, 11|       is in these respects that poets fail worst when they fail,
16    III, 12|        in the latter style, and poets for actors competent to
17    III, 12|       to act in such plays. Yet poets whose plays are meant to
18    III, 12| Licymnius among the dithyrambic poets. Compared with those of
19    III, 14|        Asian land...~The tragic poets, too, let us know the pivot