The Poetics of Aristotle
Poetics by Aristotle Translated by S. H. Butcher November, 1999 [Etext #1974] ****The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Poetics, by Aristotle**** ******This file should be named poetc10.txt or poetc10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, poetc11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, poetc10a.txt Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions, all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States, unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any of these books in compliance with any particular paper edition.
take him the next day along the coast. It was a river boat, and
unsuited to the open sea, but it was all that he could obtain.
[Sidenote: Pompey embarks on board a vessel.]
[Sidenote: The shipmaster's dream.]
He arose the next morning at break of day, and embarked in the little
vessel, with two or three attendants, and the oarsmen began to row away
along the shore. They soon came in sight of a merchant ship just ready
to sail. The master of this vessel, it happened, had seen Pompey, and
knew his countenance, and he had dreamed, as a famous historian of the
times relates, on the night before, that Pompey had come to him hi the
guise of a simple soldier and in great distress, and that he had
received and rescued him. There was nothing extraordinary in such a
dream at such a time, as the contest between Caesar and Pompey, and the
approach of the final collision which was to destroy one or the other of
them, filled the minds and occupied the conversation of the world. The
shipmaster, therefore, having seen and known one of the great rivals in
the approaching conflict, would naturally find both his waking and
sleeping thoughts dwelling on the subject; and his fancy, in his dreams,
might easily picture the scene of his rescuing and saving the fallen
hero in the hour of his distress.
[Sidenote: Pompey goes on board a merchant ship.]
However this may be, the shipmaster is said to have been relating his
Poetics by Aristotle Translated by S. H. Butcher November, 1999 [Etext #1974] ****The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Poetics, by Aristotle**** ******This file should be named poetc10.txt or poetc10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, poetc11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, poetc10a.txt Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions, all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States, unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any of these books in compliance with any particular paper edition.