and the rest of the ode, in which Horace represents the state under the semblance of a ship, the civil wars as tempests, and peace and good-will as the haven.O ship, new waves will bear thee back to sea.
What dost thou? Make the haven, come what may,Hor. Od. i. xiv. 1.
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Allegory, which is translated in Latin by inversio,
either presents one thing in words and another in
meaning, or else something absolutely opposed to the
meaning of the words. The first type is generally produced by a series of metaphors. Take as an example:
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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