"I found Odysseus in the thick of slaughtered corpses;
there he stood and all around him, over the beaten floor,
the bodies sprawled in heaps, lying one on another…
How it would have thrilled your heart to see him –
splattered with bloody filth, a lion with his kill!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 23, lines 48-52. Eurycleia describes Odysseus’ moment of glory after he succeeded in wiping out the suitors. She tells Penelope of the dramatic and horrific scene she walked in on: Odysseus in the midst of the bodies of the suitors he killed. A metaphor compares Odysseus to a lion with his kill.