What we call poetic pictures, the ancients, as we learn from Longinus, called “phantasiæ;” and what we call illusion in such pictures, they named “enargia.” It was therefore said by some one, as Plutarch tells us (Erot. T. ii. edit. Henr. Steph. p. 1351), that poetic “phantasiæ” were, on account of their “enargia,” waking dreams: Αἱ ποιητικαὶ φαντασίαι διὰ τὴν ἐνάργειαν ἐγρηγορότων ἐνύπνια εἰσίν. I could wish that our modern books upon poetry had used this nomenclature, and avoided the word picture altogether. We should thus have been spared a multitude of doubtful rules, whose chief foundation is the coincidence of an arbitrary term. No one would then have thought of confining poetic conceptions within the limits of a material picture. But the moment these conceptions were called a poetic picture, the foundation for the error was laid. NOTE 36, p. 89. Iliad, iv. 105. αὐτίκ’ ἐσύλα τόξον ἐΰξοον καὶ τὸ μὲν εὖ κατέθηκε τανυσσάμενος, ποτὶ γαίῃ ἀγκλίνας·... αὐτὰρ ὁ σύλα πῶμα φαρέτρης, ἐκ δ’ ἕλετ’ ἰὸν ἀβλῆτα πτερόεντα, μελαινέων ἕρμ’ ὀδυνάων· αἶψα δ’ ἐπὶ νευρῇ κατεκόσμει πικρὸν ὀϊστὸν, ἕλκε δ’ ὁμοῦ γλυφίδας τε λαβὼν καὶ νεῦρα βόεια· νευρὴν μὲν μαζῷ πέλασεν, τόξον δὲ σίδηρον. αὐτὰρ ἐπειδὴ κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τόξον ἔτεινεν, λίγξε βιὸς, νευρὴ δὲ μέγ’ ἴαχεν ἆλτο δ’ ὀϊστὸς ὀξυβελὴς, καθ’ ὅμιλον ἐπιπτέσθαι μενεαίνων. To bend that bow the warrior lowered it And pressed an end against the earth.... Then the Lycian drew aside The cover from his quiver, taking out A well-fledged arrow that had never flown,— A cause of future sorrows. On the string He laid that fatal arrow.... Grasping the bowstring and the arrow’s notch He drew them back and forced the string to meet His breast, the arrow-head to meet the bow, Till the bow formed a circle. Then it twanged; The cord gave out a shrilly sound; the shaft Leaped forth in eager haste to reach the host.—BRYANT. NOTE 37, p. 108. Prologue to the Satires, 340. That not in Fancy’s maze he wandered long, But stooped to Truth and moralized his song. Ibid. 148. ... Who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense?