claw-mad as a lion
some shepherd tending woolly flocks in the field
has just grazed, a lion leaping into the fold,
but he hasn’t killed him, only spurred his strength
and helpless to beat him off the man scurries for shelter,
leaving his flocks panicked, lost as the ramping beast
mauls them thick-and-fast, piling corpse on corpse
and in one furious bound clears the fenced yard –
so raging Diomedes mauled the Trojans.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 5, lines 151-159. A dramatic epic simile describes Achaean hero Diomedes, having been wounded in the shoulder by the archer Pandarus, as like a raging lion mauling the Trojans.