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[8] In all these cases, success is attained when a word is appropriately applied, either by homonym or by metaphor. For example, in the phrase Anaschetos (Bearable) is Unbearable,
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there is a contradiction of the homonym, which is only appropriate, if Anaschetus is an unbearable person. And,
Thou shalt not be more of a stranger than a stranger, or
not more than you should be, which is the same thing. And again,
for here too the word repeated is taken in a different sense.
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It is the same with the celebrated verse of Anaxandrides,
for this is the same as saying that
it is worthy to die when one does not
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deserve to die, or, that
it is worthy to die when one is not worthy of death, or,
when one does nothing that is worthy of death.
The stranger must not always be a stranger,
It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death;
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Rhetoric. Aristotle. John Henry Freese (Translator). London. 1926.
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