 | Aristotle - 1920 - 100 σελίδες
...of Dionysus ' (D + A), and the shield as the ' cap of Ares ' (B + C). Or to take another instance : As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to...accordingly describe evening (B) as the 'old age of the day"1 (D-fA) — or by the Empedoclean equivalent; and old age (D) as the ' evening ' or ' sunset of... | |
 | Aristotle - 1924 - 376 σελίδες
...Dionysus ' (D + A), and the shield as the ' cup of Ares ' 4 (B + C). Or to take another instance : As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to...accordingly describe evening (B) as the 'old age of the day' (D+A) — or by the Empedoclean equivalent ; and old age (D) as the ' evening ' 8 or ' sunset of 25... | |
 | Aristotle - 1920 - 100 σελίδες
...'shield of Dionysus (D+A), and the shield as the 'cup of Ares' (B+C). Or to take another instance: As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to...accordingly describe evening (B) as the 'old age of the day (D+A)—or by the Empedoclean equivalent; and old age (D) as the 'evening' or 'sunset of life' (B+C).... | |
 | James F. Ross - 1981 - 266 σελίδες
...substituted for B'. (He does not give an explanation of why not all such sentences are acceptable.) 'As old age (D) is to life (C) so is evening (B) to...describe evening (B) as "The old age of the day", (D&A) . . . and old age (D) as the evening or sunset of life (B&C)' Poet. 1457b, 23-25. (Aristotle... | |
 | Joseph Owens - 1981 - 282 σελίδες
...probability. For instance, the metaphor of old age as the evening of life (b 24) is grounded on the analogy "As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to day (A)" (b 22-23). This analogy is obviously regarded as something certain. It is an instance in which the... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - 1981 - 546 σελίδες
...true of outworn analogies that have turned into idioms, as in the case in Aristotle's second example: "As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to day (A).") In common parlance of course there are a great many figurative expressions that resemble metaphors... | |
 | Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 σελίδες
...opiate of the masses," and "Language is the mirror of the mind" share a form first noted by Aristotle: As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to..."evening" or "sunset of life" (B + C). (Poetics, 1457b) The genitive phrase in each case specifies a concept in a way incompatible with our default version... | |
 | Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner - 1998 - 204 σελίδες
...root of all evil" and "Brevity is the soul of wit" illustrate the XYZ figure, which was first noted by Aristotle in the following passage: "As old age...'evening' or 'sunset of life' (B + C)" (Poetics, 1457B). Here, Aristotle announces his threefold discovery — the existence of a conventional mapping scheme... | |
 | Alison E. Denham - 2000 - 392 σελίδες
...Dionysus' [D + Al, and the shield as the 'cup of Ares' [B + Cl. Or to take another instance: as old age [Dl is to life [C[, so is evening [B( to day [A]. One will accordingly describe evening [6[ as the 'old age of the day' [D + A( — or by the Empedoclean equivalent: and old age [D[ as the... | |
 | Esa Itkonen - 2005 - 272 σελίδες
...fourth (D) to the third (C); for one may then metaphorically put D in lieu of B, and B in lieu of D. ... As old age (D) is to life (C), so is evening (B) to...describe evening (B) as the 'old age of the day (D + A) . . . and old age (D) as the 'evening' or 'sunset of life1 (B + C). (De Poetica 1457b, 15-25) From... | |
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... that to which the word it supplants is relative. Thus a cup (B) is in relation to Dionysus (A) what a shield (D) is to Ares (C). The cup accordingly will be metaphorically described as the "shield of Dionysus" (D + A), and the shield as the "cup of... 