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swallow in the bowstring simile

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swallow in the bowstring simile
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·Simile

A swallow’s twittering supplies the simile for the sweet sound of Ulysses’s bowstring.

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“like the twittering of a swallow”

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·Simile
“it sang sweetly under his touch like the twittering of a swallow”

Passage preview

Book 21 · Passage 39

But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends. Then he took it in his right hand to prove the string, and it sang sweetly under his touch like the twittering of a swallow. The suitors were dismayed, and turned colour as they heard it; at that moment, moreover, Jove thundered loudly as a sign, and the heart of Ulysses rejoiced as he heard the omen that the son of scheming Saturn had sent him.