Kitap 5
11.25
Of this kind is the saying of Cicero See IV. iv. 8. : As our bodies can make no use of their members without a mind to direct them, so the state can make no use of its component parts, which may be compared to the sinews, blood and limbs, unless it is directed by law. And just as he draws this simile in the pro Cluentio from the analogy of the human body, so in the pro Cornelio pro Clunt. liii. 146. he draws a simile from horses, and in the pro Archia pro Arch. viii. 19. from stones.
11.26
As I have already said, the following type of simile comes more readily to hand: As oarsmen are useless without a steersman, so soldiers are useless without a general. Still it is always possible to be misled by appearances in the use of simile, and we must therefore use our judgment in their employment. For though a new ship is more useful than one which is old, this simile will not apply to friendship: and again, though we praise one who is liberal with her money, we do not praise one who is liberal with her embraces. In these cases there is similitude in the epithets old and liberal, but their force is different, when applied to ships and friendship, money and embraces.
