David accomplished the conquests of Saul but on a grander scale; Saul hath slain his thousands and David his tens of thousands is the popular couplet comparing the relative merits of the rival dynasts.
Constructed and written in almost slavish imitation of Virgil, employing for medium a very unsuitable vehicle - the Alexandrine couplet (as reformed and rendered monotonous for dramatic purposes) - and animated neither by enthusiasm for the subject nor by real understanding thereof, it could not but
couplet הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד