[p. 341] Again, we may exalt our theme by the use of simile, as in the phrase:win rocks that threaten heaven.
Aen. i. 162.
Thou wouldst have deemed
That Cyclad isles uprooted swam the deep.Aen. viii. 691.
[68]
We may say more than the actual facts, as
when Cicero says,1 "He vomited and filled his lap
and the whole tribunal with fragments of food, or
when Virgil speaks of
1 Phil. II. xxv. 63.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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