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[60] Posidonius in his treatise
On Style defines a poetical phrase as one that is metrical or rhythmical, thus mechanically avoiding the character of prose; an example of such rhythmical phrase is:
O mightiest earth, O sky, God’s canopy.
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And if such poetical phraseology is significant and includes a portrayal or representation of things human and divine, it is poetry. A term is, as stated by Antipater in his first book
On Terms, a word which, when a sentence is analysed, is uttered with complete meaning; or, according to Chrysippus in his book
On Definitions, is a rendering back one’s own.
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Delineation is a statement which brings one to a knowledge of the subject in outline, or it may be called a definition which embodies the force of the definition proper in a simpler form. Genus (in logic) is the comprehension in one of a number of inseparable objects of thought:
e.g. Animal; for this includes all particular animals.
Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.
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