Poetics

 Poetics

 To employ such license at all obtrusively is, no doubt, grotesque but in any mode of poetic diction there must be moderation. Even metaphors, strange

 Euripides substitutes thoinatai, 'feasts on,' for esthiei, 'feeds on.' Again, in the line,

 the difference will be felt if we substitute the common words,

 Or, if for the line,

 we read,

 Or, for eiones booosin, 'the sea shores roar,' eiones krazousin, 'the sea shores screech.'

Or, if for the line,

diphron aeikelion katatheis oligen te trapezan,

Setting an unseemly couch and a meager table,