And the following is not unlike it (I. vi. 510):—
His bright arms flashing like the gorgeous sun
Hasten'd with boastful mien and rapid step.
And these things, according to the ancient fashion, he exalts not unreasonably. If any one changes the participles into verbs, he will discover the sequence, for the word "lightning" has the same value as "when it was lightning," and "relying" "since he relied." Like these cases are the following (O. xii. 73):—
There are two crags, one reaches the broad sky,
and (I. vii. 306):—
They parted: Ajax to the Grecian camp
And Hector to the ranks of Troy returned.
And others of the same kind. For it is reasonable when one is about to speak of two individuals to put first what is common to the two, keeping the nominative in both cases. It is plain that this common use displays much grace. Sometimes employing a common case he signifies only one, as in the following (I. iii. 211):—
Both sat down, Ulysses was the higher in honor.
The form of words he often changes, sometimes putting the comparative instead of the absolute (I. i. 32):—
That you may return a more sane being.