Right behind them the two Aeantes held the Trojans off as a wooded rocky ridge stretched out across an entire plain holds back a flood, fighting off the killer-tides of the mounting rivers, beating them all back to swamp the lowland flats - none of their pounding waves can make a breakthrough. So the two Aeantes kept on beating the Trojans off.

Right behind them
the two Aeantes held the Trojans off as a wooded rocky ridge
stretched out across an entire plain holds back a flood,
fighting off the killer-tides of the mounting rivers,
beating them all back to swamp the lowland flats –
none of their pounding waves can make a breakthrough.
So the two Aeantes kept on beating the Trojans off.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 17, lines 837-843. As Menelaus and Meriones carry away the corpse of Patroclus, Great Ajax and Little Ajax hold off the Trojans. Homer in a simile likes this to a rocky ridge acros a plain holding back a flood.

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