As the bull a marauding lion cuts from the herd, tawny and greathearted among the shambling cattle, dies bellowing under the lion's killing jaws - so now Sarpedon, captain of Lycia's shieldsmen, died at Patroclus' hands and died raging still.

As the bull a marauding lion cuts from the herd,
tawny and greathearted among the shambling cattle,
dies bellowing under the lion’s killing jaws –
so now Sarpedon, captain of Lycia’s shieldsmen,
died at Patroclus’ hands and died raging still.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 16, lines 575-579. The killing of Sarpedon by Patroclus is compared to a bull being cut down by a marauding lion in this epic simile by Homer.

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