1. Calling a commonplace metaphor necessarily ineloquent is incorrect; a familiar link can still be apt.
2. Treating distinctive metaphor as merely obscure vocabulary misses the rare comparison or technique.
3. In the horse verse, the horse itself is not described as literally sitting in iḥtibāʾ; the image concerns tack and saddle.
4. In “sālat ... al-abāṭiḥ,” the verb is attributed to the valley grounds, not grammatically to the camels.
Correcting these errors makes the classification and the analyses of both classical examples internally consistent.