they sprang in pursuit
as a pair of rip-tooth hounds
bred for the hunt and flushing fawn or hare
through a woody glen keep closing for the kill,
nonstop and the prey goes screaming on ahead –
so Odysseus raider of cities and Diomedes
cut him off from his own lines.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 10, lines 420-426. Trojan spy Dolon is chased and cut off from his own lines by Odysseus and Diomedes, who are also on a spying mission. The Achaean duo are compared to predatory hounds chasing a fawn or hare, in an epic simile.