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Allegory is said to have the same office as Metaphor; indeed, Allegory is a perpetual Metaphor.

TROPES OF SPEECHES.

It is said from the Greek ἀλληγορία allegory, that is, I say one thing, I feel another.

A decorative drop cap A is present. ALLEGORY (Inversion, Permutation) is when one thing is proposed in words and another in sense, or when from the proposed words a far different, and sometimes even contrary, sense is gathered. It contains several continuous transfers and is for that reason also called a perpetual Metaphor. This is usually formed frequently from proverbial expressions and also from proverbs. As, to join foot pedem conferre, for that which is to contend with arguments. To seek the throat iugulum petere, for that which is to attack the head of a cause. You grapple the main point in the matter. To throw a javelin tragulam inijcere, that is, to intend a fallacy. Flame is next to smoke, by which it is signified that danger must be avoided in time. There is no need for ivy to be hung on salable wine, that is, excellent things do not require exotic commendation. Virgil:
Children, close the streams now, the meadows have drunk enough.

As in Urania in the glosses by Saracinus.

Note that it was in use in antiquity to fight, and hand-to-hand, as if with the hand and in front.

Moreover, this is that Allegory, or in-itself.

Furthermore, an Allegory does not occupy the whole speech, nor is it mixed with open things. Horace placed it whole and unmixed:
Will new waves carry you back to the sea, O ship? What are you doing? Bravely occupy the port, etc. In which he wished the Ship to be understood as the Republic, the Waves as the tempests of civil wars, the Port as peace and concord. So Virgil, Georg. 2,
But we have finished an immense sea in spaces,
that is, I have already finished an immense subject, etc.

This figure as a trope contains under itself almost all proverbs.

Allegory differs from Metaphor because the latter is of one word, but the former is of the whole speech. Egypt for the world. Meta: But to leave Egypt for the world is Allegory.