CHAPTER IV.

OF A SIMILITUDE.

A _similitude_ differs from a _metaphor_ only by such particles of comparison as these; _as_; _even_ _as_; _so_; _even so_, &c.

A _similitude_ therefore is a _metaphor dilated_; and a _metaphor_ is a _similitude contracted_ into one word.

A _similitude_ does well in an oration, so it be not too frequent; for it is poetical.

An example of the _similitude_, is this of Pericles, that said in his oration, _that the Bœotians were like so many oaks in a wood, that did nothing but beat one another_.

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