will be felt if we substitute the common words, {nu upsilon nu / delta
epsilon / mu / epsilon omega nu / mu iota kappa rho omicron sigma / tau
epsilon / kappa alpha iota / alpha rho theta epsilon nu iota kappa
omicron sigma / kappa alpha iota / alpha epsilon iota delta gamma sigma}.
Or, if for the line, {delta iota phi rho omicron nu / alpha epsilon iota
kappa epsilon lambda iota omicron nu / kappa alpha tau alpha theta
epsilon iota sigma / omicron lambda iota gamma eta nu / tau epsilon / tau
rho alpha pi epsilon iota sigma / omicron lambda iota gamma eta nu / tau
epsilon / tau rho alpha pi epsilon zeta alpha nu),} We read, {delta iota
phi rho omicron nu / mu omicron chi theta eta rho omicron nu / kappa
alpha tau alpha theta epsilon iota sigma / mu iota kappa rho alpha nu /
tau epsilon / tau rho alpha pi epsilon zeta alpha nu}.

Or, for {eta iota omicron nu epsilon sigma / beta omicron omicron omega
rho iota nu, eta iota omicron nu epsilon sigma kappa rho alpha zeta
omicron upsilon rho iota nu}

Again, Ariphrades ridiculed the tragedians for using phrases which no one
would employ in ordinary speech: for example, {delta omega mu alpha tau
omega nu / alpha pi omicron} instead of {alpha pi omicron / delta omega
mu alpha tau omega nu}, {rho epsilon theta epsilon nu}, {epsilon gamma
omega / delta epsilon / nu iota nu}, {Alpha chi iota lambda lambda
epsilon omega sigma / pi epsilon rho iota} instead of (pi epsilon rho
iota / 'Alpha chi iota lambda lambda epsilon omega sigma}, and the like.
It is precisely because such phrases are not part of the current idiom
that they give distinction to the style. This, however, he failed to see.

It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of
expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so
forth. But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.