The present essay-study is a try to figure out, in the parameters of the scientific argument, the real sense of the Eminescu’s metaphor “Cantemir croind la planuri din cuţite şi pahare”, which in author’s opinion, sight him out directly the big scholar and politic man Dimitrie Cantemir. In favor of this interpretation come the historic come the authentic historical deeds, as well as the traditions for the centuries of popular collective creation.