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Other expressions are metaphorical, for example: Then all the other immortals and men lay all night in slumber, while yet he says: Yea, when indeed he gazed at the Trojan plain Agamemnon Marvelled at voices of flutes . . . All is used instead of many metaphorically, all being a species of many.Hom. Il. 2.2 (quoted by mistake for Hom. Il. 10.1) and Hom. Il. 10.13, 14: Then all the other immortals and all the horse-crested heroes Night-long slumbered, but Zeus the sweet sleep held not. . . (Hom. Il. 2.1, 2) Yea, when indeed he gazed at the Trojan plain, Agamemnon Marvelled at voices of flutes and of pipes and the din of the soldiers. (Hom. Il. 10.13, 14) Problem: If all were asleep, who was playing the flute? Solution: This may be a metaphor; as explained in chapter 21, all is one kind or species of many, and thus by transference all is used for many, the species for the genus. And again, Alone unsharingHom. Il. 18.489: She alone of all others shares not in the baths of the Ocean. The reference is to the Great Bear. Problem: Why does Homer say she alone when the other Northern Constellations also do not set? Solution: As in the last instance, the may be metaphorical, i.e., the genus, sole, may be here used by transference for one of its species, best known. is metaphorical; the best known is called the only one.