...it is mean Diction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar terms [xenikon], ie, strange words, metaphors, lengthened forms, and...everything that deviates from the ordinary modes of speech [para to kurion]" (1458a18—23). In the same sense of deviation we have "escapes banality" (exallatousa...

...not mean. The clearest indeed is that made up of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean. . . . On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished...ordinary modes of speech. ... A certain admixture . . . of unfamiliar terms is necessary. These, the strange word, the metaphor, the ornamental equivalent,...

...On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar tenrs, ie, strange words, metaphors," lengthened forms, and...ordinary modes of speech. . . . A certain admixture of unfamiliar terms is necessary. These, the strange word, the metaphor, the ornamental equivalent,...