As a shepherd lifts a ram’s fleece with ease,
plucks it up with a hand – no weight at all to him –
so Hector raised the rock, bore it straight for the doors
that blocked the gateway, powerful, thickset, the pair
towering up with two bars on the inside, crossing over
each other, shot home with a bolt to pin them firm.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 12, lines 524-529. Hector picks up a huge rock to smash the Achaean gates. An epic simile compares him to a shepherd lifting up the fleece of a ram with ease with his hand.