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[5] Art is cleverly concealed when the speaker chooses his words from ordinary language
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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 later
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in what places they should be used;
Rhetoric. Aristotle. John Henry Freese (Translator). London. 1926.
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