adorns and beautifies a verse, without adding any particular emphasis. As Headlam (1920) notes, often the alliteration runs through a passage, linking together the various clauses, as in the opening of Aeneid 4, where the letters C, C, V, V, T, T recur repeatedly, as well as assonances such as , , and : "But the Queen, for a long time now wounded with serious passion, feeds the wound in her veins and is tormented by unseen fire. The man's courage keeps occurring to her mind, and the nobility of his race; his face and words remain fixed in her heart and her love gives no peaceful sleep to her limbs." In his commentary on these lines, Ingo Gildenhard suggests that in the repeated alliteration with V in three pairs of words, Virgil seems to be hinting at a thematic link between the "wound" of Dido and the "manliness", "face", and "words" of Aeneas. Synonyms and antonyms Another use for alliteration is to link together synonyms or thematically similar words: . "For it is not unimportant or sporting prizes which are being competed for, but they are fighting over the life and blood of Turnus." "driven here by the wind and by huge waves" "O my sister, who art also my most dear wife" "Be on your way, and direct your step wherever the road takes you." In the following example, the great quantity of blood when the two bulls fight is emphasised by the alliteration on the words "copious" and "they wash": "Leaning they stab their horns and with copious blood they wash their necks and shoulders, and the whole forest echoes with bellowing." Alliteration can also be used in both prose and verse to emphasise an antithesis between two opposite things: "it is not your words but the gods who terrify me" Onomatopoeia Frequently both Lucretius and Virgil use alliteration onomatopoeically to paint pictures in sound. Thus alliteration with S may represent the whooshing of an arrow or a spear, the sound of waves breaking on the rocks, or the hissing of serpents: . "But the wounded serpent writhes its sinuous coils and bristles with raised scales and hisses with its mouth" R, C, T, and S may call up "loud and violent sounds". In the following lines the alliteration is reinforced by assonance of or, or and to, to, tu, tu: "just then there arises a shout