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' Or, again, as old age is to life, so isevening to day. Evening may therefore be called 'the old age ofthe day, ' and old age, 'the evening of life, ' or, in the phraseof Empedocles, 'life's setting sun. ' For some of the terms of theproportion there is at times no word in existence; still the metaphormay be used. For instance, to scatter seed is called sowing: but theaction of the sun in scattering his rays is nameless. Still this processbears to the sun the same relation as sowing to the see...d. Hence theexpression of the poet 'sowing the god-created light. ' There is anotherway in which this kind of metaphor may be employed. We may apply analien term, and then deny of that term one of its proper attributes; asif we were to call the shield, not 'the cup of Ares, ' but 'the winelesscup. ' {An ornamental word. .. } A newly-coined word is one which has never been even in local use, butis adopted by the poet himself. Some such words there appear to be: as{epsilon rho nu upsilon gamma epsilon sigma}, 'sprouters, ' for {kappaepsilon rho alpha tau alpha}, 'horns, ' and {alpha rho eta tau eta rho}, 'supplicator, ' for {iota epsilon rho epsilon upsilon sigma}, 'priest.
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