... Epitome troporum ac schematum et grammaticorum & rhetorum, ad authores tum prophanos tum sacros intelligendos non minus utilis quam necessaria

Mixed is that which consists partly of clearly unmixed things, partly of mixed ones.

I added the colophon. He placed the south wind first there. It is called mixed, in total fame, for it is not imposed or when it alludes, that is, what is more not trusted, it can. Strabo writes that the Colophonians abounded in forces in fights, up to being inextinguishable. To mix, for in both wars are waged, the result cannot be Colophon, now great, now ampler, it may be destroyed then.

Fab. book 8. ch. 6.

Colophon finishing touch up to here we have embraced the things to be treated in verse, now it is fitting to add the colophon and finish that poem. A mixed example of allegory is this Ciceronian one: For my part, I thought that the other tempests and storms in those flows of assemblies always had to be endured by Milo. Here he mixed the allegory when he said flows of assemblies fluctibus concionum. Similar is that in Matthew the third: Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will purge his floor, and will gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire. Here the Allegory is mixed when it is said with inextinguishable fire. Moreover, the sense is that Christ, by the judicial power which he received from the Father, in the final judgment will separate the pious from the impious, and will bestow eternal beatitude on the former, but assign the latter to eternal torments. In Allegory, it must be observed above all that you finish with the same type of transfer with which you began, so that when you have taken the beginning from a storm, you do not finish with fire or ruin:

Horace in the Art.

And when an amphora large jar begins to be formed, why does a pitcher emerge?

Amphora from the proposed ἀμφι on both sides and φορεῖν to carry. A vessel and in two parts... it can also be completed.

I open the homes... opening the rights.

There are eight species of this: Enigma, Paroemia, Irony, Sarcasm, Asteismus, Mycterismus, Antiphrasis, and Charientismus. Hyperbole is added.

Enigma αἴνιγμα riddle, is an obscure allegory and a thing covered and veiled by the wrappings of words. Man. ch. Obscure speech to all is called an Enigma.

My mother bore me, and soon the same is born from me.
For ice hardens from water, and is again resolved into water. It differs from Allegory because the latter is evident, clear, and manifest: the former is a sub-obscure and hidden speech.

This was the wisdom of the ancients, that by customary words and not by some obscure ones, they might hide the arcane mind of the wise, namely through enigmas, through various symbols. Erasmus and Wartring Camperasig treat this abundantly.