i dont think that there are any yet. but there are similies used in chapters 8 & 9
It's an interpretation of the story of King Arthur. The title comes from the supposed epitaph on Arthur's grave:
HIC IACET ARTURUS - REX QVANDAM REXQUE FUTURUS
Here lies Arthur, the Once and Future King
What frustrates the wart about the language of the ants is the lack of words. The wart wants to be able to speak and say more.
two allusions are the dagger...and the duke with the leg of a man upon his shoulder....The colonel (cully) made those allusions around page 80ish
It foretells of bad happenings to Wart.
Mordred was King Arthur's illegitimate son. Queen Morguase was able to make him fall in love using a skin tape. He (Mordred) ultimately led to Arthur's downfall.
Balan says, "Mark my words. We shall have a regular king in that young candidate." Meaning that the Wart would someday grow to do something great.
"The mustard-pot got up and walked over to his plate on thin silver legs that waddled like the owls" Page 33
personification
In the beginning , he's described in p. 40. "He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned him."
You can also see part of his personality when he says that it was he who took the sword out of the stone , but later quickly repents when his father asks him twice .
Lancelot and Galahad were much different. They were both amazing knights able to best most others at anything because of their skills in fighting. However, Galahad proved that he was the better knight by defeating Lancelot on the quest to find the Holy Grail. Galahad was more pious than Lancelot and it was his purity that allowed him to be the best. Lancelot had been considered the best knight but then, because of Lancelot's sinfulness Galahad was able to best him. Galahad also seemed like he was not human to many people because of his great holiness. Lancelot had made mistakes, but eventually had repented; Galahad didn't seem to make any mistakes and was able to reach the holy grail, while Lancelot was only to get a glimpse of it.