Note 1320 — Chapter IV · VALERIUS FLACCUS
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Eg. Similes become especially frequent in the description of the fighting in Bk. III., and in Hercules’s alarm over the absence of Hylas (III. 577, 581, 587). Among natural and pathetic similes is that on children praying that their father seriously ill may be spared (V. 22-24).