Quintus Curtius, speaking of Porus mounted on an elephant, and leading his army to battle:
Magnitudini Pori adjicere videbatur bellua qua vehebatur, tantum inter cæteras eminens, quanto aliis ipse præstabat.
L. 8. cap. 14.
It is a still greater deviation from congruity, to affect not only variety in the words, but also in the construction. Describing Thermopylæ, Titus Livius says,
Id jugum, sicut Apennini dorso Italia dividitur, ita mediam Græciam deremit.
L. 36. § 15.
Speaking of Shakespear:
There may remain a suspicion that we over-rate the greatness of his genius; in the same manner as bodies appear more gigantic on account of their being disproportioned and mishapen.
History of G. Britain, vol. 1. p. 138.