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Art is cleverly concealed when the
speaker chooses his words from ordinary language1 and puts them
together like Euripides, who was the first to show the way.
Nouns and verbs being the components of speech, and nouns being of the different
kinds which have been considered in the Poetics, of these we
should use strange, compound, or coined words only rarely and in few places. We
will state later2 in
what places they should be used;
1 Cp. Hor. AP. 46, where it is said that the choice and use of words requires subtlety and care, skill in making an old word new by clever combination （callida iunctura） being especially praised.
2 Chaps. 3 and 7.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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