Or to take another instance: As old age (D)
is to life (C), so i.e.ening (B) to day (A). One will 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). It may be that some of the terms thus related have no
special name of their own, but for all that they will be
metaphorically described in just the same way. Thus to cast forth
seed-corn is called 'sowing'; but to cast forth its flame, as said of
the sun, has no special name. This nameless act (B), however, stands
in just the same relation to its object, sunlight (A), as sowing (D)
to the seed-corn (C). Hence the expression in the poet, 'sowing around
a god-created _flame_' (D + A). There is also another form of
qualified metaphor. Having given the thing the alien name, one may by
a negative addition deny of it one of the attributes naturally
associated with its new name. An instance of this would be to call the
shield not the 'cup _of Ares_,' as in the former case, but a 'cup
_that holds no wine_'. * * * A coined word is a name which, being
quite unknown among a people, is given by the poet himself; e.
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