Don’t think for a moment, Achilles, son of Peleus,
you can frighten me with words like a child, a fool –
I’m an old hand myself at trading taunts and insults.
We both know each other’s birth, each other’s parents,
we’ve heard their far-flung fame on the lips of mortal men,
though you have never set eyes on mine, or I on yours.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 20, lines 234-239. As they face each other on the battlefield, Aeneas tells Achilles that he cannot frighten him with his taunts and insults. Using a simile, he says Achilles is being like a child and a fool.