Awesome - as when the grip of madness seizes one who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to foreign shores, to a wealthy, noble host, and a sense of marvel runs through all who see him - so Achilles marveled, beholding majestic Priam.

Awesome – as when the grip of madness seizes one
who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees
abroad to foreign shores, to a wealthy, noble host,
and a sense of marvel runs through all who see him –
so Achilles marveled, beholding majestic Priam.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 24, lines 563-567. Achilles is amazed to see Trojan king Priam in his hut. His reaction is captured in an epic simile about a man who murders someone in his own land, then flees to the home of a rich man in a foreign land, where those who see him are seized with wonder.

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