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 1    III, 2|       another. Metaphors, like epithets, must be fitting, which
 2    III, 2|        red-fingered morn". The epithets that we apply, too, may
 3    III, 2| plaguelet". But alike in using epithets and in using diminutives
 4    III, 3|      unseasonable, or frequent epithets. It is appropriate enough
 5    III, 3|     white milk", in prose such epithets are sometimes lacking in
 6    III, 3|        course we must use some epithets, since they lift our style
 7    III, 3|      not good. That is why the epithets of Alcidamas seem so tasteless;
 8    III, 6|      the help of metaphors and epithets, being careful to avoid
 9    III, 6| lyreless" melody, thus forming epithets out of negations. This device
10    III, 7|     nor must we add ornamental epithets to commonplace nouns, or
11    III, 7|        words, fairly plentiful epithets, and strange words best