We therefore answer that the poet was forced by the metre to use the diminutive, and for that reason the diminutive belongs solely to the integrity of the line; otherwise he would have said, “according to the people of the discipline.”

Should someone object, “In our usage the word ‘fan’ (art/discipline) carries an unfavorable connotation,”
we reply that, among scholars, fan simply means “category” or “field.”

A poet said:
“You hoped to wake up a learned debater, without any effort—
yet madness comes in many forms.”

In other words, whoever wishes to become a jurist skillful in debate without toil is deranged, and insanity has varieties—among them the person who says, “I want to be a debating jurist while still lying comfortably in bed.”