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[12] Further, metaphors must not be far-fetched, but we must give names to things that have none by deriving the metaphor from what is akin and of the same kind, so that, as soon as it is uttered, it is clearly seen to be akin,
as in the famous enigma, “ I saw a man who glued bronze with fire upon another.

” There was no name for what took place, but as in both cases there is a kind of application, he called the application of the cupping-glass gluing.1 And, generally speaking, clever enigmas furnish good metaphors; for metaphor is a kind of enigma, so that it is clear that the transference is clever.

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