“Descending by a rope let down,a phrase which in a similar manner indicates the height of the horse. The same poet,3 when he says that the Cyclops lay stretched “throughout the cave,” by taking the room occupied as the standard of measure, gives an impression of the giant's immense bulk.
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An example of the former is found
in Homer,1 where he makes Menelaus say that the
Greeks descended into the Wooden Horse, indicating
its size by a single verb. Or again, there is the
following example by Virgil:2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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