...- tion (phantasia: 15). Although the sections include commentaries on many different levels of literary discourse, the subject of the sections always corre- sponds to conventional inventio in one way or another: finding the suitable expression, aspect, element, image or repetition of the subject...

....” He extrapolates this concept from Aristotle’s account in book 3 of Πɛρὶ φυχῆς ( Peri psychēs ), “ On the Soul ,” of φαντασία ( phantasia )—the psychological faculty whereby images are generated—which, again following the Latin, we render in English as, “imagination.” In Aristotle’s account, while...