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The second kind of fallacy of diction is homonymy.Or equivocation, in which a single term has a double meaning. For instance, if one were to say that the mouse is an important animal, since from it is derived the most honored of all religious festivals, namely, the mysteriesDeriving μυστήρια ( μύειν, to close the lips) from μῦς (mouse).; or if, in praising the dog, one were to include the dog in heaven (Sirius), or Pan, because Pindar said,A fragment from the Parthenia (songs sung by maidens to the accompaniment of the flute). Pan is called the dog of Cybele, the great nature-goddess of the Greeks, as being always in attendance on her, being himself a nature-god. The fact that Pindar calls Pan dog is taken as a glorification of that animal. O blessed one, whom the Olympians call dog of the Great Mother, taking every form, or were to say that the dog is an honorable animal, since to be without a dog is most dishonorable. And to say that Hermes is the most sociable of the gods, because he alone is called common;κοινὸς Ἑρμῆς is an expression meaning halves! When anyone had a stroke of luck, such as finding a purse full of money in the street, anyone with him expected to go halves. Hermes was the god of luck, and such a find was called ἑρμαῖον. κοινωνικός is taken to mean (1) liberal to others, or (2) sociable. and that words are most excellent, since good men are considered worthy, not of riches but of consideration; for λόγου ἄξιος has a double meaning.λόγος: (1) speech; (2) account, esteem.
