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fpecles. On the contrary, the clafs is 
taken for the genus by Virgil when he 
fays tollitfe arretfum quadrupes. 
Ironia - dij/imulatio^ illufio y diverjiloquium, 
means the reverfe of that which is ex- 
preffed : thus Terence ebodum, bonevir! 
Thefe are confidered, by Rhetoricians, as 
the four primary Tropes, which they fub- 
divide into a number offpecies; or to fpeak 
more accurately and fcientifically, varieties, 
not worth enumerating. Two of thefe how- 
ever fhould be remembered, viz. 
Allegoria inverfw, permutatio : a con ti- 
nued metaphor: par fur hint monies nafcitur 
ridiculus mus. The entire heathen my- 
thology was by all the Greeks and Ro- 
mans, except the vulgar, confidered as 
allegorical. An allegory differs from a^- 
mile in this: in the former the fubjecl: 
proceeds without interruption; in the 
latter, you flop the fubjec~l, for the pur- 
pofe of comparing it with fomething fi- 
milar. 
Hyperbole fuperlatio, is lying without 
deceiving: thus: nive candidior 'minus 
nihllo teftudine tardior ftrong as an 
elephant fwift as #n arrow beautiful 
as an angel, &c, 
Hitherto, 
