As two farmers wrangle hard over boundary-stones,
measuring rods in hand, locked in a common field,
and fight it out on the cramped contested strip
for equal shares of turf – so now the rocky bastion
split the troops apart and across the top they fought.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 12, lines 48-493. The Lycian and Achaean troops fighting on the rampart are compared, in an epic simile, to two farmers wrangling over boundary stones on a contested strip of land.