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grbs-10341	Arnott, D. Geoffrey	Studies in Comedy, II: Toothless Wine	1970	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1854	94	67	She wittily selects for the description of her wine a series of ambiguous terms that can be applied both to wine and to aged human beings without excessive violence to contemporary idiom. The adjectives ~8vc and cCl.1Tp6c suit wine and wight with equal appropriateness, although CCl.1TpOC was doubtless a vulgarism when applied to people.6 The noun Y'pwvof course properly belongs to the human sphere, but from the time of Homer (Od. 22.184, Y'pov CtXKOC) poets employed and declined it adjec­ tivally, and applied it in the general sense of <old' to things as well as to people.7 The technique, which Aristotle in the Poetics (1457bI6) calls TO ava'\oyov, will clearly be most successful when every term in the conundrum fits with unforced ambiguity both the subject of the riddle (here, wine) and the object of comparison (here, an old person).	cache/grbs-10341.pdf	txt/grbs-10341.txt