Achilles’ spearshaft rammed him through the back
and he gasped his life away, bellowing like some bull
that chokes and grunts when the young boys drag him round
the lord of Helice’s shrine and the earthquake god
delights to see them dragging – so he bellowed now
and the man’s proud spirit left his bones behind.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 20, lines 457-462. Hippodamas is said in an epic simile to bellow like a bull pulled around the altar of earthquake god Poseidon, as Achilles kills him with a spear.