There the spear stuck. Hugging the shaft he writhed,
gasping, shuddering like some wild bull in the hills
that herdsmen shackle, trapping the beast with twisted ropes
and he fights them all the way as the men drag him off –
so he gasped with his wound. A little, not for long.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 13, lines 659-663. The Trojan Adamas is killed when Meriones spears him in the groin. His dying moments are likened in an epic simile to the final gasps of a wild bull trapped and shacked by herdsmen.