Poetics

, cap. x. Addison got his affected word 'implex' by reading Aristotle through the translation and notes of André Dacier. Implex was the word used by the French, but the natural English translation of Aristotle's

and

is into simple and complicated.

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[Footnote 2:]

Stories of Achilles, Ulysses, and Æneas.

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