down he went like a tall ash
on a landmark mountain ridge that glistens far and wide –
chopped down by an ax, its leaves running with sap,
strewn across the earth…So Imbrius fell,
the fine bronze armor clashing against him hard.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 13, lines 212-216. The Trojan defender Imbrius is described in this epic simile as falling like a tall ash, chopped down by an axe, when he is killed by Teucer with a heavy lance.