Phrases or verses that follow the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.
In the Aeneid
But now the Apollo of Grynium and the oracles of Lycia have ordered me to take Italy, great Italy: there is my love, that is my homeland.
The two clauses, “there is my love” and “that is my homeland,” share the same construction and point to the same place. The parallel makes love and homeland coincide, and so duty appears as feeling.
And you, Tyrians, torment with hatred his line and all the race to come, and send this as an offering to my ashes: let there be no love or treaties between the peoples. Let some avenger rise from my bones, who will pursue the Dardanian settlers with torch and iron, now, later, at whatever time strength is offered: I pray in a curse for shores against shores, waves against waves, arms against arms: may the grandsons fight as well.
Easy is the descent to Avernus; night and day the door of dark Dis stands open; but to turn back and escape to the breezes above, this is the task, this is the labor.
Book VI: The Descent to the Underworld, the Sibyl
Let the old name not change for the native Latins, nor order them to become Trojans and be called Teucrians, nor let men change their speech or swap their clothes. Let Latium be, let Alban kings reign for centuries, let the Roman line be powerful through Italian valor: Troy has fallen, and may you allow it to have fallen with its name.
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