Rhetoric Day 95.1

Posted on December 16, 2011 by David Oliver
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A Simile is defective if it is inexact in any aspect, and lacks a proper ground for the comparison, or is prejudicial to him who presents it.

An example is defective if it is either false, and hence refutable, or base, and hence not to be imitated, or if it implies more or less than the matter demands.

- Cicero "Ad Herennium"
 

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