Where the dun umbrage hangs.
Spring, l. 1023.
A wound is made to signify an arrow:
Vulnere non pedibus te consequar.
Ovid.
There is a peculiar force and beauty in this figure. The word which signifies figuratively the principal subject, denotes it to be a cause by suggesting the effect.
3. A word proper to the cause, employ’d figuratively to express the effect.
Boumque labores for corn. Sorrow or grief for tears.
Again Ulysses veil’d his pensive head,
Again unmann’d, a show’r of sorrow shed.
Streaming Grief his faded cheek bedew’d.
Blindness for darkness:
Cæcis erramus in undis.
Æneid. iii. 200.