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I think, too, that I am right in saying that
I noted a brilliant example of the same kind in the
Hymns1 of Pindar, the prince of lyric poets. For
when he describes the onslaught made by Hercules
upon the Meropes, the legendary inhabitants of the
island of Cos, he speaks of the hero as like not to
fire, winds or sea, but to the thunderbolt, making
the latter the only true equivalent of his speed and
power, the former being treated as quite inadequate.
1 A lost work.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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