"Turned his spear and smotewhereby the poet shows what a mighty tempest will ensue.
The mountain's caverned side, and forth the winds
Rushed in a throng,"
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On the other hand, amplification may equally result from antecedent circumstances; for example, when Juno made her request
to Aeolus, the latter1
1 Aen. i. 81.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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