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[100] I note that
comparison is also regarded as a
figure, although at times it is a form of proof,
1
and at others the whole case may turn upon it,
2
while its form may be illustrated by the following passage from the
pro Murena:
3
You pass wakeful nights that you may be able to reply to your clients; he that he and his army may arrive betimes at their destination. You are roused by cockcrow, he by the bugle's reveille,
and so on. Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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