orThence like fierce wolves beneath the cloud of night,
Aen. ii. 355.
Like the bird that flies
Around the shore and the fish-haunted reef,
Skimming the deep.Aen. iv. 254.
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The invention of similes has also provided an
admirable means of illuminating our descriptions.
Some of these are designed for insertion among
our arguments to help our proof, while others are
devised to make our pictures yet more vivid; it is
with this latter class of simile that I am now specially
concerned. The following are good examples:—
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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