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

ORATIONS. 19

When, of course, the affection of a name is directed to another while living. And the present time is that which offers itself to men in turn under different forms.

Hyperbole is expressed in four ways. Stentor at the beginning of the Iliad. Stentor is strong and of a weapon above: whose tone. See the Proverbs. when in this the thing for much appears. and to the wonderful it makes the sound of the voice as much as of others, of course. These precepts have also been handed down above Stentor.

Hyperbole is, however, quite peculiar to the genre of Adages, and it is expressed either by denomination, as "another Aristarchus," or by comparison, as "louder than our Stentor," or by epithet, as "Nestorian eloquence." Furthermore, there are nine sources from which this Trope can be drawn. First, from the thing itself, when, namely, the thing is used for the person, as whenever we call a wicked man "wickedness" Scelus, a pestilent person a "pestilence" Pestis, a skulker "darkness" Tenebrionem, one worthy of prison a "prison" Carcerem. One can also express each thing through comparison, as "more wicked than wickedness itself," "blinder than blindness," "thirstier than thirst itself," "not merely honest, but honesty itself," "more deformed than deformity." Second, it is drawn from similar things, as "sweeter than honey," "blacker than pitch," "whiter than snow," "more tranquil than oil," "duller than lead," "more absorbent than a sponge," "more involved than a labyrinth." Third, from living creatures, as "more talkative than a woman," "longer-lived than a stag," "more vocal than a nightingale," "more thirsty than a dipsas snake," "slower than a snail," "more fertile than a sow," etc. Fourth, they are drawn from the persons of the false gods, as "more intact than Diana," "more beautiful than Venus," "more eloquent than Mercury," "more biting than Momus," "more inconstant than Vertumnus," "more mutable than Proteus," "more varied than Empusa." Fifth, from fabulous persons, as "thirstier than Tantalus," "more savage than the Cyclops," "more eloquent than Nestor," "more cunning than Ulysses," "more chaste than Penelope," "more fertile than Niobe," "more foolish than Gryllus," of whom there is an infinite number today who prefer to gnaw on acorns rather than found crops. Sixth, from the characters of Comedies, as "more boastful than the Terentian Thraso," "more quarrelsome than Demea," "more easy-going than Mitio," "more...

See proverbs of Erasmus. Labyrinth is a genus of serpent, not from man but from serpents, from the mouth and son through its bite, the humor of the soul... see the proverb on Momus... Empusa was a kind of specter. Among Plutarch, a bugbear... makes use of spinose/thorny and flat things.

To Momus, this is the custom, that which the book of works put before itself, but it contemplates the works of others with curious eyes, and if it has omitted anything or is preparing with fastidiousness, it bites into it with great liberty. This is the custom if anything is omitted in the...