Like powerful stallions sweeping round the post for trophies, galloping full stretch with some fine prize at stake, a tripod, say, or woman offered up at funeral games for some brave hero fallen - so the two of them whirled three times around the city of Priam

Like powerful stallions sweeping round the post for trophies,
galloping full stretch with some fine prize at stake,
a tripod, say, or woman offered up at funeral games
for some brave hero fallen – so the two of them
whirled three times around the city of Priam,
sprinting at top speed while all the gods gazed down.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 22, lines 194-199. As war rivals Achilles and Hector race around the walls of the city of Troy, they are likened in an epic simile to powerful stallions racing around the post for trophies.

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