Down he crashed – horror gripped the Achaean armies.
As when some lion overpowers a tireless wild boar
up on a mountain summit, battling in all their fury
over a little spring of water, both beasts craving
to slake their thirst, but the lion beats him down
with sheer brute force as the boar fights for breath –
so now with a close thrust Hector the son of Priam
tore the life from the fighting son of Menoetius,
from Patroclus who had killed so many men in war.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 16, lines 958-966. The Achaean armies are horrified as Hector delivers the fatal blow to Patroclus, spearing him deep in the bowels and out through his back. The image of a lion overpowering a wild boat on a mountain summit is used to describe the slaying in an epic simile.