Fervit aestu pelagus[149].
There are also, in the same style, these rough and graphic lines, exemplifying the impetuous force which the older Roman poets impart to their descriptions by the figure of speech called 'asyndeton,'—
Armamentum stridor, flictus navium,
Strepitus fremitus clamor tonitruum et rudentum sibilus.[150]
Virgil must have had this passage in his mind when he wrote the line—
Insequitur clamorque virum, stridorque rudentum.
The effect of alliteration and assonance may be illustrated by a passage from the 'Niptra,' in which Eurycleia addresses the disguised Ulysses:—
Cedo tamen pedem tuum lymphis flavis flavum ut pulverem
Manibus isdem quibus Ulixi saepe permulsi abluam,
Lassitudinemque minuam manuum mollitudine.[151]