Furrowing Prows: Varro of atax's Argonavtae and Transgressive Sailing in Virgil's _Aeneid_

Classical Quarterly 67 (2):542-557 (2017)
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Discussing different types of metaphor, Isidore of Seville quotes an anonymous fragment that uses agricultural vocabulary to describe the sailing of a ship in order to illustratemetaphorae ab inanimali ad inanimale‘metaphors taken from inanimate objects and applied to inanimate objects’ (Etym.1.37.3 = inc. fr. 63 Blänsdorf):1.

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