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Their word also for 'to act', they say, is dran, whereas Athenians use prattein. So much, then, as to the number and nature of the points of difference in the imitation of these arts. It is clear that the general origin of poetry was due to two causes, each of them part of human nature.
Another difficult word which constantly recurs in the Poetics is prattein or praxis, generally translated 'to act' or 'action'. But prattein, like our 'do', also has an intransitive meaning 'to fare' either well or ill; and Professor Margoliouth has pointed out that it seems more true to say that tragedy shows how men 'fare' than how they 'act'. It shows their experiences or fortunes rather than merely their deeds.
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