“The steersman thenor when Livy2 says that Scipio was continually barked at by Cato.
With mighty effort wrenched his charger round.
”
[9]
It is a comparison when I say that a man did something like a
lion, it is a metaphor when I say of him, He is a lion.
Metaphors fall into four classes. In the first we
substitute one living thing for another, as in the
passage where the poet, speaking of a charioteer,1
says,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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