Like a giant breaker rearing up on the rangy seas, crashing over a ship's sides, driven in by the winds and the blast builds the comber's crushing impact - a hoarse roar! - Trojans stormed over the rampart, lashing their teams to fight

Like a giant breaker rearing up on the rangy seas,
crashing over a ship’s sides, driven in by the winds
and the blast builds the comber’s crushing impact –
a hoarse roar! – Trojans stormed over the rampart,
lashing their teams to fight against the ships,
hurling their two-edged spears at close range there.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 15, lines 448-453. The re-energized Trojans attacking the Achaean wall are compared in an epic simile to a great sea wave, driven by the winds and crashing over the sides of a ship.

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