Disgraces – have you no shame?
Just standing there, dumbstruck like fawns
done in from hightailing over some big meadow,
winded and teetering, heart inside them spent.
Standing there dazed, your fighting spirit dead –
what are you waiting for?
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 4, lines 277-281. Using an extended simile, Agamemnon urges on his reluctant Achaean soldiers and rebukes them for being like dazed and winded fawns bereft of fighting spirit.