1224. What words contain in their nearest meaning is a mere bodily element- which makes it clear that those who find elegance to consist only in the use of double meanings, as well as in eloquence and poetic style, are merely corporeal people.
1224. Words directly contain what is merely corporeal; hence it is evident that those who place elegance simply in equivocal expressions, also in eloquence and poetry, are only corporeal.
1224. Merum corporeum est quod voces proxime continent, inde constat, qui solum in 1
aequivocis ponunt elegantiam, tum in eloquentia et poesi, quod sint modo corporei.
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