Why is enumerative imagery – the quantification and counting up of hours, days, weeks, combats, challenges, blows, wounds, soldiers, teeth, miles, words, etc. – so recurrent in A King and No King? It seems like Bessus is the character who most often uses numerical figures in his speeches (though other characters – such as the swordsmen, Ligones, and eventually Mardonius in V.i – seem to become infected by his language); is this to heighten the ridiculousness of his claims by adding a pretended precision to them? Is this part of the trope of the miles gloriosus?
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