down the Trojan fell as an oak or white poplar falls
or towering pine that shipwrights up on a mountain
hew down with whetted axes for sturdy ship timber –
so he stretched in front of his team and chariot,
sprawled and roaring, clawing the bloody dust.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 13, lines 454-458. Trojan warrior Asius is described as toppling like a tree cut down by shipwrights in this epic simile, as the Cretan leader Idomeneus kills him with a spear.