«وَمِنْهُ الِاسْتِتْبَاعُ: وَهُوَ الْمَدْحُ بِشَيْءٍ عَلَى وَجْهٍ يَسْتَتْبِعُ الْمَدْحَ بِشَيْءٍ آخَرَ»
“Istتباع praises a person in a way that brings another ground of praise along with it.”
A cited poetic image speaks of a patron taking the years of his enemies, thereby suggesting bravery and, by implication, other virtues connected with the consequences of that bravery.
Unlike a simple listing of virtues, the second commendation is entailed by or drawn from the first.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II
«وَمِنْهُ الِاسْتِتْبَاعُ: وَهُوَ الْمَدْحُ بِشَيْءٍ عَلَى وَجْهٍ يَسْتَتْبِعُ الْمَدْحَ بِشَيْءٍ آخَرَ»
“Istتباع praises a person in a way that brings another ground of praise along with it.”
A cited poetic image speaks of a patron taking the years of his enemies, thereby suggesting bravery and, by implication, other virtues connected with the consequences of that bravery.
Unlike a simple listing of virtues, the second commendation is entailed by or drawn from the first.