Like devouring fire roaring down onto dry dead timber, squalls hurling it on, careening left and right and brush ripped up by the roots goes tumbling under crushed by the blasting fire rampaging on - so under Atrides' onslaught Trojans dropped in flight.

Like devouring fire roaring down onto dry dead timber,
squalls hurling it on, careening left and right and
brush ripped up by the roots goes tumbling under
crushed by the blasting fire rampaging on –
so under Atrides’ onslaught Trojans dropped in flight.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 11, lines 179-183. The Trojan soldiers run away from a rampaging Agamemnon. An epic simile here compares him to a devouring fire burning through dead timber and brush, as he fells the fleeing Trojans.

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