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In every
comparison the simile either precedes or follows the
subject which it illustrates. But sometimes it is
free and detached, and sometimes, a far better
arrangement, is attached to the subject which it
illustrates, the correspondence between the resemblances being exact, an effect produced by reciprocal
representation, which the Greeks style ἀνταπόδοσις.
For example, the simile already quoted,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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