If he has funeral games for Patroclus, Virgil has the same for Anchises, and Statius (rather than omit them) destroys the unity of his actions for those of Archemorus.

If Ulysses visit the shades, the AEneas of Virgil and Scipio of Silius are sent after him.

If he be detained from his return by the allurements of Calypso, so is AEneas by Dido, and Rinaldo by Armida.

If Achilles be absent from the army on the score of a quarrel through half the poem, Rinaldo must absent himself just as long on the like account.

If he gives his hero a suit of celestial armour, Virgil and Tasso make the same present to theirs.