Book 8
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amplification results from subsequent events, since the violence with which the wine burst from him was such that the vomiting was not accidental nor voluntary, but a matter of necessity, at a moment when it was specially unseemly, while the food was not recently swallowed, as is sometimes the case, but the residue of the revel of the preceding day.
3.18
On the other hand, amplification may equally result from antecedent circumstances; for example, when Juno made her request to Aeolus, the latter Aen. i. 81. "Turned his spear and smote The mountain's caverned side, and forth the winds Rushed in a throng," whereby the poet shows what a mighty tempest will ensue.
