1 i.e., one which has dined normal currency as contrasted with the "rare word," which is confined to a dialect or borrowed from a foreign language.
2 Meaning, "spear."
3 Probably "the bronze" is in the first case a knife and in the second a cupping-bowl. This would make the metaphor intelligible.
4 This may claim to be one of Aristotle's least lucid sentences. It means this: If Old Age: Life:: Evening: Day, then we may call old age " the Evening of Life." In that case "old age" is the "term supplanted by the metaphor," and it is relative to " Life"; therefore "Life" (i.e., "that to which the term supplanted by the metaphor is relative")is added to the metaphorical (or "transferred") term "Evening."
5 Unknown to us.
6 Or you might call Love "Venus's bloodless War." At this point a few lines on "Ornament" have evidently been lost, since this is its place in the catalogue of nouns above. By "ornament" he seems to mean an embellishing epithet or synonym. In the Rhetoric he quotes "Our lady the fig-tree" as a misplaced "ornament." One might add the seventeenth-century use of "Thames" for "water."
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