Note 10 — LECTURE II, and III. Of the Nature and Origin of Poetry in general.

Ποιεω, in the Doric and Æolic Dialects is writ ποεω, whence Ποητεϛ, Poeta. See Chishul's Inscript. Sigea, § ult. A Maker in our own Language under Queen Elizabeth, was the common Appellation for a Poet, agreeably to the Greeks, with whom, likewise, the Verb ποιεω simply signified to make Verses. See Taylor's Lysias, Ed. 4to, p. 27.